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Terrified workers flee NYC's new One Vanderbilt skyscraper after 'huge SHAKE' rippled through interior of 93-story tower that made its floors feel as if they were collapsing
Daily Mail ^ | 3/21/23 | Jimmy MCCloskey

Posted on 03/21/2023 2:51:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Terrified workers fled a soaring new Manhattan skyscraper after experiencing a huge 'shake' run through the building, that made it feel as if its floors were collapsing.

One Vanderbilt, a $3.31 billion tower which sits just north of Grand Central train terminal in Midtown Manhattan, was struck by the tremor on Tuesday afternoon.

A spokesman for One Vanderbilt said the shaking was due to repair work on the elevators, and there were no injuries as the public viewing platform was closed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe the Trump curse is starting to hit New York?


81 posted on 03/21/2023 7:22:51 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: waterhill

I have frequent nightmares about elevators.

I wonder what that means.

I always wake up just before it hits bottom, though.

A metaphor for life?


82 posted on 03/21/2023 7:41:26 PM PDT by miserare ( Free Jacob Chansley!)
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To: montag813

Oh, no...not the Chrysler Building. It was always my favorite.


83 posted on 03/21/2023 7:44:04 PM PDT by miserare ( Free Jacob Chansley!)
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To: DallasBiff

Elevator repair guys on 2-way radios:

(shudder/shake)

“What’d you do??!! Car 18 is grounded!”

“Oops. Wait: Didn’t you mean car 8?”


84 posted on 03/21/2023 9:15:28 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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85 posted on 03/21/2023 9:17:29 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DallasBiff

Tuned mass damper malfunction. Only thing it could be, sans Danny Ocean.


86 posted on 03/21/2023 9:34:40 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DallasBiff

“It’s a piece of junk!”


87 posted on 03/22/2023 3:03:43 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: miserare
Oh, no...not the Chrysler Building. It was always my favorite.

Same. Still the most spectacular building in NYC, 93 years later.

88 posted on 03/22/2023 5:17:30 AM PDT by montag813
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To: DallasBiff

I would not go back in that place.


89 posted on 03/22/2023 5:20:48 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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