Sanctuary

The Sanctuary is a multi-Tradition Chantry somewhere in Manhattan. They take security seriously, and avoid having their location leak out by having a series of tunnels (no one quite knows how they fit into the New York underground) that disorient and confuse anyone who enters them.

History
Times Square may be a major landmark today, but the Node it corresponds to was a weak, boring thing for the first few decades of its existence. Only in the 1960s did it start generating much energy, and almost as soon as it did, Jeffrey Chambers came to the City.

He harnessed its powers to create a night club in Times Square, The Inferno, which quickly became the seediest venue in the increasingly seedy Square. He also, though, built a Chantry underneath the Inferno, deliberately splitting the Cult of Ecstasy into two camps, one loyal to him and one loyal to Balador.

This wasn't just a rivalry, though. It was discovered in 2003 that Chambers was a barabbus and he had been slowly leading the Cultists who followed him through the Cauls. In 2003, though, Yeong-Cheol Mun, Burhan Najm and Arnold Leoni who had been a student of his discovered what he was doing. They led a coalition of Tradition mages (and rumor has it at least one Technocrat) into the nightclub to confront and destroy him. Lacking the ability to Gilgul, they executed Chambers. The confrontation resulted in the club being burned to the ground.

Since then, the three of them have cleaned the Node and renamed the Chantry. They support the Ceasefire strongly, but maintain secrecy in order to allow Sanctuary to actually serve as a safe harbor for those who need it, ready to open their doors to the Traditions as a whole in the event of another Pogrom.