The closer you get to the rivers, the higher the Verizon cable heads are installed. I have a client 2 blocks away from the Allegheny river and their cable room is on the 11th floor. It's like that in 90% of the high rise buildings in Pittsburgh. The cables and fibers come from the manholes and go straight to the high floors before being broken out to individual demarcs. Here, that's not unusual. I guess a few hundred years of flooding does have some impact on cable planning.
Rcaman