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/

Comments

[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.