OT: Have you been watching the building becoming unstable in NY City? Crazy!
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What did Trump do to cause this? I'm sure there's got to be some association, i.e. he went to a party there once, owned some shares in it that he sold, just wait..................
Raise your hand if you would like to live in a unit there after the engineers say it's stable 
There's some pretty poor engineering, and maybe workmanship, possibly all the way back to the original building. You don't just add floors onto an existing building without doing some very careful engineering. Maybe the original building wasn't built to design specs either, maybe substandard materials, etc.
There's no need to try and fix the building now. Who would want to buy a luxury apartment in a building that's been in danger of falling over?
There's no need to try and fix the building now. Who would want to buy a luxury apartment in a building that's been in danger of falling over?
Sounds similar to what caused a large building collapse in New Orleans a few years ago.
I thought the same but that was totally new construction in New Orleans and I believe failure to allow the concrete to cure properly caused the failure. The NYC building is old (built 1960) and they're (were) turning an office building into a luxury apartment building, while adding several floors.
That’s a big nope.Raise your hand if you would like to live in a unit there after the engineers say it's stable
If I was NYC I’d be doing a deep dive on every set of plans ever stamped by the architect and structural engineer of that building.
I've spent few weeks on those upper levels for work. The top section floors have a real small footprint. I'm guessing whoever is redeveloping it into an apartment building was trying squeeze out every square foot possible and got too ambitious. Oops.
You have changed my mind. I am now pro-choice because you clearly should have been aborted for the good of us all.
No, but they did find Jimmy Hoffa in one of the columns.
I wonder if a developer would ever take a shortcut or the cheap way out?