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Here’s who’s buying panic rooms and bullet-proof doors amid crime fears in NYC — and it’s not who you’d think
NY Post ^ | 05/13/2024 | Alex Oliveira

Posted on 05/13/2024 8:00:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New Yorkers are fortifying their homes with panic rooms and bullet-proof doors like never before over fears about crime, migrants and national turmoil — and it’s not just the city’s elite partaking in the trend.

“Not every [customer] is an ultra-rich stockbroker — a lot of them are just people, middle-class kind of people,” said Steve Humble, founder of the home-defense contractor Creative Home Engineering.

“I’d say the pandemic really kicked off an uptick. Business was really good throughout the pandemic time, and it really hasn’t slowed down,” said Humble, who specializes in top-of-the-line secret doors disguised as bookshelves, fireplaces, mirrors, blank walls and whatever else a client can think of to conceal a safety room behind them.

He is one of numerous home-defense contractors who told The Post that the past four years have been a boon for business, with New Yorkers from all walks of life shelling out thousands of dollars to outfit their homes with hidden rooms, bulletproof doors and a swath of other covert security systems to keep the baddies at bay should they come knocking.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bulletproof; doors; nyc; panicrooms; protection; security; selfdefense
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If you're sleeping are you going to have enough time to wake up and run in the panic room?
1 posted on 05/13/2024 8:00:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

shelling out thousands of dollars to outfit their homes with hidden rooms, bulletproof doors and a swath of other covert security systems to keep the baddies at bay should they come knocking.


A better investment might be your neighbors. Put some beer in the fridge and steaks on the grill and open the garage door.


2 posted on 05/13/2024 8:03:25 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stop voting stupid


3 posted on 05/13/2024 8:06:14 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A few remotely fired set-guns scattered throughout the house would probably be a good idea, too.


4 posted on 05/13/2024 8:06:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Another better investment might be to vote in politicians, prosecutors and judges who will actually enforce the law and keep violent criminals in jail.


5 posted on 05/13/2024 8:07:01 AM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Repeal NYC gun laws that make the average citizen sheep to be slaughtered by criminal wolves.


6 posted on 05/13/2024 8:09:58 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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>> New Yorkers are fortifying their homes with panic rooms and bullet-proof doors like never before over fears about crime, migrants and national turmoil

Uh... you don’t want to be stuck in a panic room in NYC when the SHTF...


7 posted on 05/13/2024 8:11:15 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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You can see Creative Home Engineering stuff right here:

https://hiddenpassageway.com/

You still would need a 12 gauge shot gun and and AR rifle with a 40 round mag.


8 posted on 05/13/2024 8:11:40 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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I have an alarm that will wake me.



9 posted on 05/13/2024 8:13:15 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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Ain’t Communism wonderful.


10 posted on 05/13/2024 8:15:13 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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Stop voting stupid

We can't have that now, can we?

11 posted on 05/13/2024 8:16:34 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Practice panicking. Run around in circles saying, what do I do
.what do I do?!
Oh wait, I’ve got a panic room.


12 posted on 05/13/2024 8:19:04 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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13 posted on 05/13/2024 8:21:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Stay in NYC. We’re full.


14 posted on 05/13/2024 8:22:30 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m a big believer in having a secure room based on what fits your budget.

As a young husband I would put dead bolts on our bedroom door everywhere we lived so that the wife would be able to sleep safer when I was away, someone handy and owning a home might spend some money to add some reinforcement in the shared wall between the master bath and the bedroom, and replacing door trim and the bathroom door with something more substantial with whatever it takes to keep the door closed.

If your wife can handle the idea, a pistol under the sink is a nice touch.


15 posted on 05/13/2024 8:24:42 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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It appears that they are preparing for SWAT.


16 posted on 05/13/2024 8:27:26 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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What good is a safe room if your house is on fire?


17 posted on 05/13/2024 8:29:15 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Noumenon

they have been that so long it’s altered there DNA


18 posted on 05/13/2024 8:29:59 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“a lot of them are just people, middle class people”...that voted D. “elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” applies.


19 posted on 05/13/2024 8:37:29 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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To: BigFreakinToad

I would say move but as they say, you can run but you can’t hide.


20 posted on 05/13/2024 8:37:50 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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