Beyond this door there's a mysterious magic tunnel that runs straight through the house to Somebody's back-yard.

And in the back-yard is a castle and in the castle studios and skylights, electricity and steam heat and wide, old-fashioned fireplaces.

Once it was a tenement--just like this with fifty dirty people in it--but Ann with her magic wand has changed it all." The basement door at which he had been ringing a prolonged Morse dot and dash announcement of identity clicked back and revealed a dimly lighted tunnel.

At the end a flight of steps led up into a courtyard.
Kenny closed the outer door and blocked out the roar of the city.

New York receded, its hum very far away.