Building 121 was RENOVATED.
An electric stove in an apartment does not need gas.
Apartments do not have water heaters.
The building’s boiler supplies heat and hot water to all apartments.
Tell me, if there was no gas then how did the sushi restaurant prepare their food? If they had an illegal connection then why weren’t they shut down.
Gibberish, I am master plumber and a plumbing contractor, do you really think that I don’t know that an electric heater needs gas? I am the man who does gas lines.
Are you now switching to saying that the apartments all had electric stoves, and 220 volt electricity for them?
The Sushi restaurant was legal, it was their gas line that she illegally tapped into.
“”The owner of Sushi Park, Hyeonil Kim, noted that an earlier siphoning scheme had been disrupted by Con Ed over the summer due to leaky hoses, leaving his restaurant without gas. Yet the residential tenants upstairs had their gas back almost immediately.
Investigators now believe that, possibly for more than a year, gas had been redirected from pipes coming into two of the buildings that were destroyed. They are looking into the possibility that the siphoning apparatus had been dismantled or somehow hidden from Con Edison’s inspectors on Thursday afternoon, then restored after they left.””