Gothamist: Mystery Mercury

anon

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:44:17 -0500

This is not as uncommon as you might think; I used to work for the Health Dept., and the top several floors of one of their buildings are not particularly safe as they are contaminated with radium. How did it get there? Well, in the 1940s there was a lab (now demolished) on the roof, and they happily poured radium they'd finished using down the drain, the pipes for which remain on the top two floors which are now office space. No one's ever really cleaned it up, but there is a false ceiling or something shielding the radioactive pipes in question. Glad I didn't work in that building -- and I doubt all the people who do know are aware of its history. I won't say exactly which building it is, but I'll say this -- it's not 125 Worth St, but another one very close by...

jordan

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:12:18 -0500

cf. dcist, mercury, cardozo high school

c212

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:23:07 -0500

The T-1000 was not made from mercury, but rather a "mimetic polyalloy". So the only thing you'd have to worry about if you saw mercury dripping from the ceiling is poisioning, not Robert Patrick forming naked in your room and impaling you with a chosen sharpened appendage.

mikey

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:58:45 -0500

it's 55 west 8th street.

me

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:47:55 -0500

last time i checke, west 18th street is not in greenwich village.

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:38:25 -0500

I think it should be fluid ounces

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:36:37 -0500

How does one ounce weigh one pound?