Keys to the City
9th October 2012
A set of “master keys” to the infrastructure of New York City popped up on eBay last month, leaving many public commentators and city officials alike concerned for the safety of the metropolis.
The thing I find amusing is that the blog post (echoing the newspaper article) published a convenient photograph showing the keys and a legend describing what they do.
Wouldn’t it be fun to make a set for yourself? The two Yale keys appear to be standard models. From the published specs and the photograph it wouldn’t be at all difficult to create a set with the proper measurements from metal stock using appropriate tools (utter the magic work ‘Dremel’….).
I wonder whether any of this occurred to the person who wrote the blog post? Or the newspaper article?