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For the second time since construction started, there was a serious accident at the One Ten Third, the Toll Brothers project at...110 3rd Avenue and East 13th Street. This time, it wasn't a crane that came crashing down, but glass falling to the street below. It's unclear at this time whether it was just one piece of glass, but 3rd Avenue was shut down. It appears that there are no injuries and we're told that 3rd Ave. is open again.
After the 8,000 pound crane fell in September, construction was temporarily suspended and the cab driver who escaped death sued. Prior to the crane accident, the construction site only had eight minor violations.
One thing's for sure: If we ever walk down 3rd Ave between 13th and 14th, Gothamist will be on the east side of the street, hopefully far enough from the slippery hands of the Toll Brothers and their contractor Tishman. No words on falling objects at the Brooklyn Toll Brothers project.
Photographs sent in by reader Calvin Wong; contribute your photographs by sending them to photos(at)gothamist(dot)com or tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr
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I was walking by this building on Saturday and realized how truly dirty and grimy it's going to look in two years. I don't think it's a pleasing building. But, of course, that's just my 2 cents.
this is the kind of building they'll tear down in 10 years. when i was growing up, it was buildings of similar architecture that were deemed hideous and out dated.
they weren't pretty in the 50's and 60s and not pretty now.
this is the kind of building they'll tear down in 10 years
It's a condo right? Not a rental? How often does an entire condo building decide to sell out to the wrecking ball? Don't count on it.
whoopsies!
Do all those boards represent windows that have fallen out?
That pic of the construction workers in priceless. It's got such a 'duh' quality.
The problem here is threefold:
1. 311 is utterly ineffective. I called them on two separate occasions when I witnessed the crane operator at the construction site between 23rd and 24th on third repeatedly let a full load (for that particular crane, two tons) freefall ten stories before hitting the brakes. The model of crane is not rated for that kind of operation, and WILL come crashing down eventually as a result of its operator's idiocy. What did 311 do?
Nothing. Not a thing.
2. Investors. The people who build these giant glass pieces of shit dont care if they stand for one year or a hundred, or whether the windows are even or if they put in a refurbed elevator (like the one in the building at 43 avenue C) that breaks all the time---they want the return that they predicted. If they sell, who cares?
3. New Yorkers. There aren't enough New Yorkers (people who actually care about this kind of thing) left in the city, because they all had to move out during the guilliani regime when their rent jumped from 800 a month (barely managable in a microstudio for a waiter) to 2,000 a month. Coupled with 9/11, the guilliani regime cured New York of New Yorkers, and thus these buildings will keep going up, things will keep falling off them, and two or three people on a blog somewhere are going to get pissed off about it.
I think the building looks great but everyday I walk by it and stay as far away as I can when crossing to the Brooklyn bound L. Love the dinosaur mural behind it too. :)
Is it me, or is NYC just a really tall suburb now?
Yeah, a tall suburb...suburban mall that is.
damn, that building is getting more and more hideous by the day. #2 is correct