Posted on 03/26/2015 12:42:01 PM PDT by rightistight
A building has at least partially collapsed in Manhattan after witnesses reported an explosion:
Reports are that people are trapped inside.
We will have more details as they emerge.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Not a meth lab. Meth is as popular as Garth Brooks and NASCAR in NYC.
The LAND is very valuable, if you bought the entire block and razed it. Those buildings look like money sinkholes.
Now reporting the building has entirely collapsed.
Actually, a studio in that neighborhood would cost you about $5-7 million. A three bedroom apartment in that neighborhood would set you back about $10 million.
Unless your blog is on site reporting from there, why not just link to the actual news source instead of to your second-hand blog??
The people who currently own the property down there are all multi-millionaires.
Wow!!! I lived in that neighborhood in 1970; it was where hippies and old Ukrainians lived. Ratner’s Deli was on 2nd Avenue near the Fillmore East.
Ostrich sticking head in the sand 5 ... 4 ... oops there it goes. Well, buildings do explode then collapse all the time in U.S.
Hopefully it was a terrorist bomb making factory and the only ones killed were the terrorists.
Prayers for all innocents involved.
“Definitely not a terrorist attack...” in 1,2,3...
What’s on that valuable property may not be.
Spontaneous combustion thereof may prove quite convenient, akin to the destruction seen in Ferguson. [insert conspiracy theory here]
Perhaps built in the 1890s-1910s?
You seem unaware of how much money fills the owner’s pockets from owning those buildings.
I was in a fire in a high rise building once. The smoke was beginning to get thick and people in the building came in and got on the elevator to go to an upper floor.
I couldn’t believe it. I was out of there immediately.
p.s. more than 100 people died in that fire.
Not true. There are still a lot of rent controlled apartments in those buildings. Figure the tenants pay between $200 & $500 rent.
You believe tenants might be paying 200 a month in those buildings??!
They would have had to been living there for over a hundred years for that to be even a remote possibility.
There are anomalies in rents in Manhattan, but they are pretty rare these days.
You have no clue what a rent controlled apartment is and how tenants cheat the system to keep those apartments for their grandkids.
THE NewYork Daily News mentions an artist who has lost all his artwork. Back in 1980 when I knew him, he was paying $35 a month. Another girl I knew, was paying $40 a month. Their rent today would be around $200.
Wow amazing numbers.
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