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Building Explosion in Manhattan
WCBS-YV

Posted on 07/10/2006 6:05:56 AM PDT by joeystoy

Building explosion at 32 East 62nd Street. Four story building collapses and is burning. Several people reported trapped in the rubble.


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KEYWORDS: explosion; manhattan; nyc
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To: TexKat

2000 Census put the median home price at $1 million

Way low...I think. I'm working on an 1800sf pre war apartment on 63rd between Park & lexington which was just purchased at a steal for 1.7 million.
Burtha's place was a 3-4 story building.


241 posted on 07/10/2006 9:26:37 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: joeystoy


It must have been Bush's fault. How else would he have instantly known it was not due to terrorism?


242 posted on 07/10/2006 9:27:56 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( on the cutting edge.)
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To: FlowJo

Considering the supposed suicide message was sent via e-mail, maybe the doc didn't send it. If he didn't, wonder if anyone had it in for the doc?


243 posted on 07/10/2006 9:29:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Conservababe
According to FOX he was about to divorce his wife and was possibly going to need to sell the building.

Insurance money??

244 posted on 07/10/2006 9:33:01 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: BluH2o

>probably a gas explosion<

And terrorists don't do gas. :o)


245 posted on 07/10/2006 9:41:11 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( on the cutting edge.)
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To: Paperdoll

of course they do....they blew up an entire block in Moscow that way...

of course, that was denied a long time also


247 posted on 07/10/2006 9:47:05 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: TET1968

According to papers filed in relation to the divorce, the building, purchased in 1980 for a little over $390,000, was worth $5 million in 2002. As 2002 was a bad year for real estate in NYC (after the September 11th attacks), I'm sure this number has migrated upward since then.


248 posted on 07/10/2006 10:06:31 AM PDT by deputac
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To: deputac

http://nycserv.nyc.gov/nycproperty/statements/mvh/jsp/stmtassessmvh.jsp?statementId=95916028

Property Address and Zip Code: Borough:
Block:
Lot:

MANHATTAN
1376
48

34 EAST 62 STREET 10021


Market Value History


2006/07 6,360,000
2005/06 5,530,000
2004/05 4,810,000
2003/04 4,130,000
2002/03 3,900,000


249 posted on 07/10/2006 10:31:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Yehuda

The building is in his wife's name.


250 posted on 07/10/2006 10:33:38 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Tulsa Ramjet; concretebob
Natural gas is very dangerous when it builds up because it is lighter than air.

Once some people moved out of their house and didn't have a cap for the gas line to their stove so they stuck a potato on the end of the line.

It eventually shrunk and gas filled the house from the top down. When it got to the level of the water heater pilot flame it lifted the roof off of the house with the resulting explosion!

LP gas is heavier than air, and will sink to the ground and then build up instead of down. Still very dangerous though.

Yea, what's the matter with the noses on those people concretebob?
251 posted on 07/10/2006 10:34:25 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: commish
FOR THE TRULY CONSPIRACY MINDED: With reference to the site of the explosion, 34 East 62d Street, a book called "For the President's Eyes Only" by Christopher Andrew, states, at page 83:

"As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, FDR also began cultivating his own intelligence sources. Among the most prominent was multi-millionare publisher and property developer Vincent Astor. In 1927, Astor had set up an informal intelligence group known as "The Room" that met monthly in New York City in an apartment building at 34 East 62d Street with a mail drop and an unlisted telephone number.

Prominent members of Yhe Room included FDR's cousin, Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; Banker Winthrom W. Aldrich; Judge Frederic Kernochan; Philanthropist William Rhinelander Stewart; the assistant secretary of air F. Trubee Davison; and David Bruce, who later served in London both as wartime chief of the OSS and as postwar ambassador."

Perhaps some old explosive secrets lying around??

252 posted on 07/10/2006 11:01:58 AM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: BohDaThone

"Prominent members of Yhe Room included FDR's cousin, Kermit"

I knew that frog gig was a front. Nothing but puppetry propaganda. Some even say Charlie McCarthy started the red scare while U.S. Senator.


253 posted on 07/10/2006 11:49:22 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: areafiftyone

Nah that would cause a mass evacuation. LOL

Maybe not. The residents ( as any sane persons) would be simply mesmerized by the horror of the sound. A deep primal instinct that fear of the unknown horror would paralyze them into temporary helplessness. Only when their brains have fully registered YOKO ONO would their limbic region scream out RUN RUN. Till then they would be trapped like freepers being forced to view Cindy Sheehan doing karoake.


254 posted on 07/10/2006 12:06:31 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Back in the 60's, my grandfather woke up and sat at the kitchen table. When he lit up his morning cig, it blew up his house and 2 of his neighbors. Died from 3rd degree burns.


255 posted on 07/10/2006 12:07:46 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: joeystoy
DIVORCE

256 posted on 07/10/2006 12:10:42 PM PDT by XR7
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To: Diddle E. Squat

The ambulances have not yet taken anyone to the hospital a "possible good sign?"...



Fire that anchor!


257 posted on 07/10/2006 12:18:20 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: AnAmericanMother; Calpernia
ROTFLMAOPMP!!!!!!! . . . sorry backhoe, I'm sure it wasn't you, just one of your distant relations that you don't acknowledge . . .

[ slowest Deep South Drawl ON...]

"Ah'd bin wundrin' where Cousin Lem had got off to with our backhoe... better go borrow Aunt Beaular's three-year-old to answer the door and the telephone..."

258 posted on 07/10/2006 12:24:58 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: jimbo123; deputac

Conrad Black.....
Several weeks ago, this thief had to dump a co-op apt on Park & 66th for $10 million.
This building has only eight floors, with one approx. 4,000 sf apt. per floor.
The consensus was that each unit was worth about $15 million.


259 posted on 07/10/2006 12:27:48 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Calpernia

Bump....


260 posted on 07/10/2006 1:16:01 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (God gives us one day of life at a time..Is he proud of his gift to you this day?)
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