Room Descriptions
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Summary:
The list of places unique to or having different descriptions in 2019.
This large and free parking lot located in the heart of the Bronx was once the site of the Primatech Research building. Dismantled and destroyed in 2013, the entire building was bulldozed to the ground and the land paved over, creating a much-needed area of free parking for northern Manhattan.
Most people agree that it is the best thing to ever happen in the Bronx.
One hundred and sixty seven floors tall, the Pinehearst Tower dominates the skyline of Manhattan. Constructed on the northern edge of the Unity National Park, this cylindrical glass tower shines with hundreds of green tinted windows, and the structural framing between the windows glitter with the reflective surface of solar paneling that covers the structure.
The Pinehearst Tower is a self-sufficient urban arcology, complete with its own power plant, solar paneling and wind turbines, several shopping centers, interior parks and hydroponic gardens and living quarters for roughly two thousand employees of the Pinehearst Company. This structure was designed as an archetype to showcase cutting-edge "green technology" and was crafted by a predominantly Evolved workforce, cutting the construction time and cost by leaps and bounds.
The tower extends nearly half its height into the ground in layers of subterranean laboratories and research facilities. The building serves as the national headquarters for the Pinehearst Company, formerly based out of Hamburg, Germany.
The ground floor and first sixty floors are open to the public, while the remaining floors are restricted to Pinehearst officials.
Independently owned by the Zarek Group, Staten Island was purchased from the United States Government by Kain Zarek in 2012 and quick reform was instated on the island. The Zarek Group’s headquarters is based out of central Staten Island. Crime rates on Staten Island are controlled by the presence of the New York FRONTLINE headquarters having been constructed on the grounds of what was once known as the Rookery, a savage and ruthless region of cutthroat criminals a decade ago.
Staten Island is connected to the mainland by the Phoenix-Narrows, former the Verrazano-Narrows, a bridge reconstructed in the memory of the freedom-fighting organization that helped defeat a potential global extinction event at this very site ten years ago. The double-decker bridge handles all land traffic coming in and out of Staten Island from New York.
Once upon a time, Midtown was a decayed, ruined, broken shell of what had been a thriving neighborhood, gutted by nuclear fire and picked to clean bones by desperate scavengers. The skeleton of the city that was is still present here, visible in the contours of the terrain. An eye-watering glint of light hints at windows still intact, somewhere beneath verdant vines; piles of masonry and warped metal yield artificial hills which now host shrubs and low-growing plants. Trees dwarf the reaching digits of twisted, tangled rebar, and last year's brown, crispy leaves hide stretches of open pavement — and the cars that choke other parts of what once were streets.
Postapocalyptic wasteland has been replaced by a thriving park ecosystem, although this park has yet to be defaced by paved walkways and interpretive signs. It exists, unfenced and undivided, in the center of New York City, melding seamlessly with Central Park to the north. A miracle wrought by Evolved abilities, the visible beneficence of Arthur and Peter Petrelli, Unity National Park is a living memorial to all of those lost in the 2006 Manhattan Explosion and the terrorist acts which followed after it, culminating in the Columbia Bombing of 2011. In the crater at the park's center stands Unity Park's sole new artificial construct — a graceful stair-step sculpture of white marble which hearkens back to the red helix once present in Kirby Plaza. On its vertical faces are inscribed the names of the dead which this memorial honors.
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