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If you want to venture into New York City’s subterranean nether circles, let Jeff Roth be your Virgil. To a basement two levels below the bustling streets near Times Square, for example. Just past some leaky pipes, a hole in the ground and through some heavy metal doors, he led me to an unexpected morgue.

What Lies Beneath The New York Times? A Lively Morgue And Its Lonely Keeper

    Claire O’Neill/NPR

    If you want to venture into New York City’s subterranean nether circles, let Jeff Roth be your Virgil. To a basement two levels below the bustling streets near Times Square, for example. Just past some leaky pipes, a hole in the ground and through some heavy metal doors, he led me to an unexpected morgue.

    What Lies Beneath The New York Times? A Lively Morgue And Its Lonely Keeper