Buildings collapse in Harlem

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newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/12/explosion-reported-at-harlem-building/




Natural gas explosion?

[Virgil Showlion]

Record-breaking one if it brought down a building. Although I've been told that bringing down a building in Harlem may not be particularly hard given the state of their infrastructure.

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natural gas explosions have leveled plenty of single family homes.

[swamp]

Mar 12, 2014 9:37:06 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Record-breaking one if it brought down a building. Although I've been told that bringing down a building in Harlem may not be particularly hard given the state of their infrastructure.

Harlem has undergone a renaissance and is no longer a slum.

[Tennesseer]

Virgil Showlion - what exactly have you heard regarding the infrastructure of the Harlem neighborhood?

[Wisconsin Beth]

The photo I've seen doesn't look like there are single family houses.

[Virgil Showlion]

Mar 12, 2014 9:49:23 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Virgil Showlion - what exactly have you heard regarding the infrastructure of the Harlem neighborhood?

That while a family member was driving across the bridge that separated Harlem and Manhattan, she marveled at how on one side of her were the majestic billion-dollar highrises of the New York skyline, and on the other were apartment complexes with crumbling eaves and collapsed balconies literally hanging off them. She said it left an impression.

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Mar 12, 2014 9:57:42 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

The photo I've seen doesn't look like there are single family houses.

they are not. 

[swamp]

Mar 12, 2014 9:59:37 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:49:23 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Virgil Showlion - what exactly have you heard regarding the infrastructure of the Harlem neighborhood?

That while a family member was driving across the bridge that separated Harlem and Manhattan, she marveled at how on one side of her were the majestic billion-dollar highrises of the New York skyline, and on the other were apartment complexes with crumbling eaves and collapsed balconies literally hanging off them. She said it left an impression.

Harlem is part of Manhattan. She was driving to another borough. 

[Virgil Showlion]

Mar 12, 2014 9:48:56 GMT -5 swamp said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:37:06 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Record-breaking one if it brought down a building. Although I've been told that bringing down a building in Harlem may not be particularly hard given the state of their infrastructure.

Harlem has undergone a renaissance and is no longer a slum.

The anecdote mentioned above was from 3.5 years ago. Perhaps it's getting better, but short of demolishing buildings, I don't really see how a city could repair the kind of damage described.

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Mar 12, 2014 9:59:37 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:49:23 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Virgil Showlion - what exactly have you heard regarding the infrastructure of the Harlem neighborhood?

That while a family member was driving across the bridge that separated Harlem and Manhattan, she marveled at how on one side of her were the majestic billion-dollar highrises of the New York skyline, and on the other were apartment complexes with crumbling eaves and collapsed balconies literally hanging off them. She said it left an impression.

Harlem is not separated from Manhattan by a bridge.  She must have been comparing different parts of NYC.  

[Virgil Showlion]

Mar 12, 2014 10:02:15 GMT -5 swamp said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:59:37 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

That while a family member was driving across the bridge that separated Harlem and Manhattan, she marveled at how on one side of her were the majestic billion-dollar highrises of the New York skyline, and on the other were apartment complexes with crumbling eaves and collapsed balconies literally hanging off them. She said it left an impression.

Harlem is part of Manhattan. She was driving to another borough. 

Ah. My mistake then. Whatever borough is on the far side of a bridge with one side looking out over Manhattan.

[swamp]

Mar 12, 2014 10:02:13 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:48:56 GMT -5 swamp said:

Harlem has undergone a renaissance and is no longer a slum.

The anecdote mentioned above was from 3.5 years ago. Perhaps it's getting better, but short of demolishing buildings, I don't really see how a city could repair the kind of damage described.

See above.  she wasn't in harlem.

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Mar 12, 2014 10:03:28 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Mar 12, 2014 10:02:15 GMT -5 swamp said:

Harlem is part of Manhattan. She was driving to another borough. 

Ah. My mistake then. Whatever borough is on the far side of a bridge with one side looking out over Manhattan.

Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

"New York firefighters and first-responders are currently on the scene in Upper Manhattan/East Harlem, where two mixed commercial-residential buildings are believed to have partially collapsed."

From Slate.com.  I'd provide the link but I suspect it's not going to be stable while the story is developing. 

[swamp]

Mar 12, 2014 10:07:21 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Mar 12, 2014 10:03:28 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Ah. My mistake then. Whatever borough is on the far side of a bridge with one side looking out over Manhattan.

Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. 

Or New Jersey

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Mar 12, 2014 10:12:33 GMT -5 swamp said:

Mar 12, 2014 10:07:21 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. 

Or New Jersey

True.  Might as well be a borough. 

[MarleyKeezy78]

Two dead and 17 injured