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.
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All three of my surviving siblings live in Queens, in what were once safe neighborhoods. On the street where my sister lives, in what used to be as safe a neighborhood as ever existed, they had to change the direction of her one-way street because cars were running the stop sign at the end, and crashing into a major cross street. Not an absolute dump, but no longer a nice safe neighborhood. And she could have sold her mortgage free house for half-a-million 15 years ago and moved to Kansas or Maine and lived out her life in peace.
Howard beach?
They be payin’ for dat with WIC?
I remember reading a book on home defense fifty seven years ago. It said to have a “Safe Room” to retreat to, with an extra phone line in case the first line is cut. AND for a weapon, break apart a pair of scissors and tape it to a broom handle.
Can you believe that!
Then hire enough cops to arrest local repeaters and standardize the Court system. Why standardize? Because criminals should NEVER be back on the street before their victims are out of the hospital.
That is actually one of my panic rooms when I build a home in a few years
Richmond Hill, less than a block from Park Lane South and Myrtle Avenue. See lives in a house on 108 ST that our great-grandparents lived in, and where my mothers aunt lived until she died. 108 Street used to be one-way north, but people would run the stop sign and crash on Park Lane South.
Out here they’d have a big problem and we don’t have safe places or iron doors. Just saying.
Oh wow
Panic rooms are nice..but really the best solutions are knowing your neighbors, invite them over for a BBQ.
This is huge news. Basically average New Yorkers are waking up. In time?
Cause the intruder(s) to be the ones panicking.
So, they prefer to hide and cower in fear rather than voting out the scumbags who in league with the criminals and illegal immigrants. Pfffft...
Yeah. We’re a small town (1200 +/-) and know just about everyone; bad thing though is we have a nation park and a state park with camping and people come over from Seattle. Those are the people we watch.
You could buy a decent backhoe for the cost of a safe room. Just sayin’.
None of the have garages.
Epstein was one of the few people to own a detached house in the entire Island of Manhattan.
Business was really good throughout the pandemic time
Weren’t contractors subject to arrest if they so much as set foot on a prospective client’s property??
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