Well, three sides of the elevator shaft are usually shear walls, that might hold back the flood? If concrete?
Water and elevators, hate each other.
they can always take the stairs LOL
I can’t even get up on a ladder now without having vertigo.
“New York is where I’d rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.”
Ha ha!
The "environmentally" climate controlled building needs window shades and portable heaters
And the famous "Leaning Tower of San Francisco" built on former land fill with foundations only half way to bed rock.
Sounds like the building was designed by a Biden supporting “engineer”.
Hey, $h:+ happens!
I heard Community Movie Night with “Towering Inferno” didn’t go over so well
Some people built something.
“Everybody hates each other here,” she said, but, for the most part, residents want to keep the squabbling out of the public eye.
Was this an Art Vandalay designed project?
There is another example from S. Padre Island, TX. Never occupied because the footings of the building were not sunk far enough— built on sand essentially and the re-bar began collapsing.
CDI did he amazing demolition. The Loizeaux family Controlled Demolition. This NY nightmare is a scam, from building to current management. Beyond dangerous.
CDI’s demo film 4 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaBQ3AkRetI
Let’s see — living in a tall building in NYC with creaky elevators, cranky neighbors, paying a fortune for crappy service, hardcore leftist mayor and governor, getting taxed up the wahoo, increasing crime with a glut of fellow moron ‘citizens’ and a declining city economy in fear of Covid — ahhhhh no thanks. The views of Manhattan and Central Park must be spectacular though. NY is an expensive pain in da ash. says me, a former NY’er.
The Icarus of housing.
Ha, and on top of that NY is now a dead city.
This is a tenuous financial situation. Residents who've already purchased their units want the developer to fix things, but they can't make too much noise about it because that will keep other interested buyers from coming in, decreasing their property values.
This is a liberal wet dream with a little more lipstick on it: people piled on top of each other, living in the city, using mass transit, all trying to stay socially distant.
I haven’t been back to NYC for 21 years. I went to Windows on the World 2 weeks before 9/11. I will never forget the elevator up, the incredible view from the elevator, the most wonderful dinner and the wonderful employees. After that a beautiful ship took us out to see the Statue of Liberty, which made me cry. After 9/11, I can’t get in an elevator for more than 3 floors. I wouldn’t live in that building for $1 billion dollars. I read the article and nearly had a panic attack. Feel sorry for those people that bought an apt there. Just because you are very rich, doesn’t mean you don’t make mistakes.
Erecting a building like that means that everyone is totally dependent on the elevators. No exceptions. Putting oneself in a situation like that is the ultimate stupidity.