Two videos offer the first glimpse inside the shadowy detention site on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where dozens of immigrants are being held for days at a time, according to an analysis by THE CITY of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data through the end of June.
The clips, shared with THE CITY by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), show one of several holding rooms on the 10th floor, where around two dozen men were held inside a fluorescent-lit room, some lying on the ground covered with aluminum emergency blankets while others sit on benches.
In one video, the person filming pans the camera to two toilets in the same room, separated from where the men are sleeping on makeshift bedding by nothing but a waist-high wall. One is covered by what appears to be tinfoil…