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U.N. Looking for Cheap Temporary Space
AP ^ | 10/12/5 | EDITH M. LEDERER

Posted on 10/12/2005 7:39:24 PM PDT by SmithL

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is looking at everything in its search for cheap temporary space — islands, cruise ships, and even large tents. And Brooklyn is definitely still in the running.

U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Louis Frederick Reuter IV, who took charge of the U.N.'s renovation and relocation four weeks ago, said the world body is scrambling to find temporary headquarters following the New York State legislature's refusal to give the go-ahead for a new building.

The sprawling U.N. headquarters complex, overlooking the East River, was considered modern when it was constructed 50 years ago but now violates most New York City fire and safety codes and desperately needs renovation.

The 38-story Secretariat building has no sprinkler system, is packed with asbestos and loses about 25 percent of the heat pumped into it in the winter.

But the cost of renovating the building, and moving elsewhere for three or four years during the overhaul, has become a major factor following the legislature's rebuff and Reuter said he wants to stay as close to the proposed $1 billion overall budget as possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Hey Kofi, try Havana.
1 posted on 10/12/2005 7:39:26 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Try New Orleans.


2 posted on 10/12/2005 7:40:37 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SmithL
Damascus is probably cheap and it looks more and more temporary all the time.
3 posted on 10/12/2005 7:41:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: SmithL

Gaza


4 posted on 10/12/2005 7:42:08 PM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: SmithL

Can they not ED the property?


5 posted on 10/12/2005 7:42:32 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: SmithL

How about Baghdad?


6 posted on 10/12/2005 7:42:56 PM PDT by CarolinaGOP ("A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: SmithL

Finally a good use for the FEMA trailers. Bring your own locksmith, Kofi.


7 posted on 10/12/2005 7:43:09 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: Izzy Dunne

R O T F L M A O !!


8 posted on 10/12/2005 7:43:30 PM PDT by calrighty ( Terrorists are like cockroaches . Kill em all soon!!)
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To: SmithL

Tristan da Cunha--if they'd have them.


9 posted on 10/12/2005 7:45:09 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: SmithL

Does Riker's Island have any space available?


10 posted on 10/12/2005 7:45:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SmithL

Gee all those Iraqi palaces of Saddam's are empty are they not?


11 posted on 10/12/2005 7:45:13 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!.......Water Buckets UP!)
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To: MNJohnnie

Excellent!


12 posted on 10/12/2005 7:46:39 PM PDT by null and void (Bringing Faith to the Doubtful, and Doubt to the Faithful)
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To: SmithL
Kahoolawe, if they just insist on our putting up with them.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/north_america/hawaii/kahoolawe.html
13 posted on 10/12/2005 7:47:41 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Mexico isn't very crowded right now, either.


14 posted on 10/12/2005 7:47:51 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: NormsRevenge

"$1 billion overall budget"

For an office building???
How much of this will Kofi get?
(Lots of places in this world where you can get an office building for far less than $1 billion. Try Bejing. Havana.
Beautiful downtown Damascus.)


15 posted on 10/12/2005 7:48:22 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: Izzy Dunne
Yep...plenty of residential and commercial space in Mid-City, along the lake and in the Lower Ninth...never mind the fur on the walls, guys. That's completely normal. It's just really really humid down there...
16 posted on 10/12/2005 7:49:18 PM PDT by RichInOC ("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
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To: SmithL

Harare's nice this time of year. All the grubs and tree bark you can eat...


17 posted on 10/12/2005 7:50:09 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SmithL
I think there is room in Zimbabwe.

Demo the building and build a memorial to victims of Communism.

18 posted on 10/12/2005 7:50:44 PM PDT by Aznar5
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To: SmithL

Kofi, hire some of those garbage scows that ply the East River; have them tie off at the UN bulkhead, board the diplomats, bang the gavel, and have at it!


19 posted on 10/12/2005 7:51:22 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: SmithL
I would suggest Haiti!

It would help the local economy considerablyaaa!

20 posted on 10/12/2005 7:53:48 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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