Eastern Extension
Building 8 is the official eastern end of the Infinite Corridor. However, on the first floor at the Building 8 end, there are stairs leading down to the first and up to the second floors of Building 16. A ground-level corridor through Buildings 16, 56, and 66 forms an eastern extension of the Infinite Corridor, ending at Ames Street across from a ceremonial archway designed by I. M. Pei, next to the MIT Media Lab.
"The Point" of Building 66 (so-called because the building tapers to a wedge-shaped point) is the easternmost point that is accessible at ground level while remaining indoors. By taking stairs down to the basement of Building 66, one can head further east via a tunnel under Ames Street, which connects to Buildings E18, E19, E23, and E25, in the eastern section of the campus.
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