I did not know about the parking garage collapse until this morning

[conuly]

Wow, that's... it's lucky nobody else was hurt. Would have been better if nobody was hurt at all.

https://abc7ny.com/parking-garage-collapse-pace-university-financial-district-lower-manhattan/13153122/

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[acelightning73]

That's in a part of lower Manhattan where the buildings and infrastructure are 100 years old or more. That building dates back to the Revolutionary War. It's not as impressive as the eleventh-century chapel at Oxford, but it's the oldest we've got.

[conuly]

Where did you hear that the building dates back more than 100 years? Everything else I've seen states that it's 98 years old.

[acelightning73]

Again on the news this morning, "most of the buildings in that part of town are over 100 years old."

[conuly]

Yes. But you said "that building dates back to the Revolutionary War". This does not appear to be true.

[acelightning73]

Almost all of the buildings in that part of the city date back to COlonial or Rev War times. McSorely's Old Ale House, which served refreshments to the Founders back when New York was the capital of the Colonies. That's one of the grat things about New York - you have Colonial history right next to Art Deco buildings and the latest hi-tech energy saving buildings all mixed together.

[conuly]

Perhaps, but that building was 98 years old.

[dine]

oh wow - I hadn't heard about this! I'm so sorry about the injuries/death, but am glad they weren't worse. what a mess - I bet traffic will be impacted for a long while as they attempt to clear things up

[bearshorty]

That's very close to my work. We got an alert about it. I am surprised that more people were not inside, thankfully of course. I feel bad for those who worked there and got hurt and one person who died.

[adafrog]

Uh oh.

[captainsblog]

I moved to Rochester not long after the bad old days of urban renewal. The state and most of its big cities were going broke and most public buildings from that era were ugly and built on the cheap. One odd exception, at least in the Not Ugly department, was this municipal parking garage, which was some sort of Guggenheim Museum homage-



The reason for the boarding-up at the bottom is it was NOT an exception to the cheap part. The bottom of the "helix" collapsed while in use. A lawyer I know was literally the last one out before it fell. Amazingly, nobody was killed or injured. Its replacement was much less chic but hells lot safer.

And yeah, I'd been down that spiral dozens of times in the 20-odd years before it collapsed. My building paid for our parking there one summer while they renovated our own garage.

[conuly]

Image is broken, fyi.

[silveradept]

That would have been scary even if there had been no injuries or fatalities. Parking garages are not usually at the top of my list of "likely to collapse without giving a warning."