Actually, Barofsky and his trusted deputy Kevin Puvalowski worked in an office suite in the subbasement of the Treasury from December of 2008 to March of 2011.
They sat in his closet for 20 years after he retrieved them from a musty room filled with cobwebs in a subbasement of a city Department of Buildings archive.
Mr. Kennedy discovered the prints after he and Marty Adler, founder of the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame, convinced the city Department of Buildings to allow them into an archival subbasement.