An Area Control ComputerInterlockingSystem (AC-CIS) im pl ements integratedcontrol over station interlocking, section block, anddispatchingand command.
Some of the rock face is owned by the Downs Committee, another section by residents in a nearby block of flats and and the land below by another private owner.
The building at 224 E. 14th St. looks like any other on the block, but a section of the brownstone-finished facade folds into Mr. Peterson's apartment to create an open-air living room.