July 28, 2007
United Nations Set for $1 Billion Renovation
The United Nations is finally moving ahead with plans to renovate its headquarters on Manhattan's East Side. The organization selected Swedish contractor Skanska AB to head up the preconstruction phase of the $1 billion project. Never known for being quick on its feet, a U.N. renovation project has been talked about since the mid-90s and is scheduled to take place in three phases over seven years, starting in early 2008.
During each phase of construction, U.N. employees will be relocated to various locations in Manhattan and Queens. The General Assembly will meet a block from the headquarters on 46th Street and the Secretary-General's office and the Security Council will remain in the main U.N. complex, but in a temporary building. The Sun reports that the plan calls for the Secretariat Building (the tower) to be renovated 10 floors at a time.
Built in 1950, the United Nations Secretariat Building has never had a major overhaul since it was built. The Conference and General Assembly buildings (completed in 1951 and 1952) and the Secretariat all contain asbestos and are in general disrepair. There are leaky roofs, poor HVAC systems and they don't meet all of NYC building codes (hello, lack of fire sprinklers). The organization also hopes to make the buildings more energy efficient. The Secretariat Building reportedly wastes as much as 25% of the heat it uses in the winter.
One original renovation plan called for a new building on the site of Robert Moses Park, but state lawmakers, who have jurisdiction over the park, objected.
Photo of the United Nations Secretariat Building by kieranpmoore on flickr
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They aren't required to meet NYC building or fire codes, let alone any other national standard. They aren't located on US soil so they don't fall under our jurisdiction. The only safety requirements the UN is required to meet are those of its insurance carrier.
And, of course, no insurance carrier likes to see money wasted on sprinklers or asbestos abatement.
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Subject: NY-City would get Mike BloomBerg, as mayor, to issue the U.S.-Historical NY-City I.D.-Cards(for any World-COUNTRY-peoples, in the NY-City, who are NY-City-Residents, with any status, Visitors, Travellers, Tourists, Students, Workers, Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Lawyers, Accountants, Musicians,Polyticians, any travellers, in transit, even for an hour in the NY-City)!
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From: My Apple Store
Date: July 28, 2007 11:04:21 AM EDT
To: aruiz@edit.nydailynews.com
Cc: unewyork2000@yahoo.com, president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: The U.S.-Constitutional Formula, to lead the World by the U.S.-Civillization(includes Human Rights, Civil Rights, rehabilitations of the homeless hard-working foreign-workers, in the U.S.A., who are just good & sacrificing, for the U.S.A.-system to grow further)!
The U.S.A. is to lead & maintain the World's Human Civil Rights !
The "U.S.-WISE-President Bush and other Wise Senators, Wise House Representatives, wise-Mayor of Los Angeles City-Antonio R. Villarigosa, wise NYC-Mayor-Mike Bloomberg" would prove they are the most U.S.-Patriot(by signing a new Law, to withhold abuse & deportation-orders, alongwith the discriminations, on the all Foreign-born-workers, in the U.S.A.,who are working hard for the less, for more than three years, taking less from the U.S.A.).
The Criminal-workers would be corrected in the Correctional Center. The U.S.-Constitutional facts want the "spread of the U.S.-faiths, round the World, which would make the U.S.A., more stable, stronger, enemey-less".
[Today some terrorist-like senators(Cornyn, Kyl, Vitter, Session, etc. are showing disrespects on the fundamental U.S.-Constitutional-facts, (to reveal there long-run hidden anti-U.S. activities), and they are supposed to be charged with the non-Patriot U.S.-Citizens, unmarked & unpunished. It is reducing the Quality of the U.S.-Expansion-program, in the outer-World; or, it is shrinking U.S.A.-system. These senators, alongwith some other House , State , City Officials, in the U.S.A., are against the U.S.-Patriiotism, or, 'are the U.S.-Traitors.
All the five former and the present U..S.-President find enough reasons & grounds(parallel to the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula to build the U.S..A. stronger & advancing, Domestically & Internationally) ,
to Legallize & Rehabilitate "the foreign-born homeless but hard-working sacrificing U.S.-revenue-ADDING foreign-workers, in the U.S.-Cities, Towns, Villages, Counties, who are to add the strength of the U.S.-Economical-Values, in the International-Scale".
I believe any U.S.-President is the most U.S.-Patriotic Person. At this context, "working against the U.S.-President, or, 'against the U.S..-Senators, 'against the U.S.-Employers(who are driving forward the U.S.-Economical motion & strength), on the issues of the Legallization & rehabilitations (of the U.S.--friiendly foreign-workers, available in the U.S.A.)" is NOTHING but "an attack on the U.S.-Patriotism". Senators(like Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions, Kyl, etc.), or, the House Reps.(like Sensenbernner, Nancy Pelosi, etc.), or , the other few State, City officials, are just against the "U.S.-Constitution, U.S.-Patriotism, etc. The U.S.-Presidents(Carter,Reagan, Senior Bush, Bill Clinton, Junior Bush) have storngly recommended(staying just parallel to the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula), "to legallize & rehabilitate the homeless, hard-working, sacrificing, U.S.-friendly, foreign-workers, available in the U.S.A., who are just busy or, serving in the U.S.-Industries, for the growth of the U.S.-National-Patriotic-Economical-Structures-Strengths-Advancements in the World". In the stupid-excuse of the word-Amneesty, "all the evil-practices of the abuse, discriminations, deportations, etc. on the homeless hard-working, sacrificing, U.S.-friendly, foreign-workers", are "anti-U.S.-Patriotism-practices, or, the anti-U.S.-Constitutional-Practices".
The U.S.-Constitution or, the U.S.-Patriotism STRICTLY prohibits "the discriminatiions, abuse, deportations, tortures, etc. evil-practices, or, the non-civillized practices, on the U.S.-friendly hard-working-workers, in the U.S.A.".
These "INCOMPLETE or, THE real LESS EDUCATED Polytical Persons(like Sensenbernner, Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions,Kyl, etc.)" on the right U.S.-Constitutional-Analysis, deserves a heavy U.S.-Govt.-levelled U.S.-Punishments & Jail-term-seggregations, as they are creating "an U.S.-Wave, unnecessarily & mistakefully, to hurt the U.S.-Constitutional-Policies & the U.S.-Patriotism".
The President Bush's (alongwith the Senators, Ted Kennedey, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, etc.) the recent U.S.-Economical-Constitutional-Patriotism parallel "Comprehenssive U.S.-Immigration-Reform-Bill-2007" has been attempted to kill in June-2007, (by the above Terrorist minded anti-U.S.-Patriot-Senators, like Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions, etc.), just to kill & hurt "the U.S.-Constitutional-Policies, U.S.-Patriotism, U.S.-National-Patriotic-Homeland-Economical-Industrial-Growth".
It is undoubted, that the U.S.-President Bush, and the other few U.S.-Patriotic-Senators(Ted Kennedey, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, etc.) were & are highly U.S.-Patriotic or, the U.S.-Constitutional wise persons, to make an attempt "to reinforce the U.S.-Domestic-Industrial-Agricultural-Constructional-Developmental-Economical-Employment-growth(through the 2007-Comprehenssive-U.S.-Immigration-Reform-June-Bill)", (for a permanent future of the U.S.-country-growth), have proved themselves, as the "U.S.-Patriot, U.S.-Constitutional-Persons", (who are temporarily obstructed, illegally, by the few incomplete & jealous-minded U.S.-traitor-Senators-Polyticians, unfortunately).
The wise-U.S.-President Bush and the other wise-U.S.-Patriotic-Senators, or, the U.S.-patriiotic-Polytical-Leaders(who are set to do the good for the U.S.-homeland-Industries-Economical-System, for it's permanent future), would now fetch an U.S.-Bill, to punish & stop "the all triator-U.S.-Senators(who are to weaken U.S.-Homeland-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Industrial-Economical-System, to give more business & money, to the U.S.-rival-economical-system)".
Next thing to do that, "all those traitor-marked dishonest and U.S.-Rival-Agent-U.S.-Senators(who are to do damages, or, to weaken the U.S.-Homeland-Domestic-Industrial-Economical-System-Growth-Advancements BASED ON the use of the hard-working, homeless, sacrificing, low-cost foreign-workers, readily available in the U.S.A.) would be warned and suspended from the U.S.-Senates-Houses-Polytical-platforms, for the next six years.
The wise-U.S.-PATRIOT-President, wise-U.S.-Patriot-Senators-House-Reps., would must bring back & pass
"the U.S..-President-2007-Bi-Partisan-comprehenssive-U.S.-Immigration-Reform-Bill, in 2007", to make "an Win of the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula and the U.S.-Patriotism(to advance & re-inforce the U.S.-Homeland-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Industrial-Economical-Employment-Export-growths, against the U.S.-Rival-Economical-Countries)".
If the U.S.-President Bush, and the other U.S.-Senators, House-Reps., Polytical-Leaders, are busy on "the War on Terrorism", then "they must need" to "continue the War on the home-grown terrorist-minded non-U.S.-Patriot-Senators,House-Reps.,Polytical-Leaders, etc., (who are the secret U.S.-Rival-agents, to give the huge business-economical-growths, in the future, to the all other U.S.-Rival-COUNTRIES-Economical-systems, in the future, by deporting 12-millions hard-working-sacrificing-low-cost-productive-workers from the U.S.-Homeland-Industries-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Economical-Working-fields)".
The honest responssible WISE-U.S.President, WISE-U.S.-Senators, wise-House-Reps., U.S.-Polyticians, etc. would now team up (and come down on the Streets of the U.S.A., on the White-House's Senate & House Floors) "to withhold all the harmful & stupid U.S.-Deportation-Orders, on the all the U.S.-friendly, hard-working sacrificing low-cost foreign-workers(in the U.S.A.), if the foreign-workers are not any such harmful wild criminals".
This would be the U.S.-Constitutional and the U.S.-National-Patriotic-Priority-work, (to re-inforce the U.S.-National-Homeland-Domestic-Industrial-Economical-Growths-Advancements).
The all kinds of the "Abuse, discriminations, deportatiions, tortures(on the U.S.-friendly, hard-working, sacrificing, low-cost foreign-workers, in the U.S.A.)", would be stopped & prohibited, now , "by a new U.S.-Patriotic U.S.-Economical-Worker-Law-2007", just "to respect the U.S.-Constitution, one more time, again, in the historical-2007".]
The U.S.-friendly, all the homeless, Hard-working, sacrificing, low-cost, foreign-workers(who are already busy, with a valuable-services, in the U.S.-National-Homeland-Industries, just to boost up the U.S.-Homeland-Industries-Economics, with a better economical & productive services), who are not any such harmful & wild criminals, would must "get the U.S.-I.D., NO-DISCRIMINATIONS, U.S.-Work-Permit, U.S.-Driving-License, U.S.-Residency-Permits". This would be just the parallel & positive to the "civillized U.S.-Constitutional-Formula, U.S.-Patriotism, required to build the U.S.A., better, stronger, growing, advancing domesticallly & internationally".
Any Human Being, (criminal or, non-criminal), in the World(at it's any part) would must carry an I.D., conditional-Work-Permit, conditional-Driving--License. Otherwise, it would be counted as a Discrimination, a homiciding-policy(maintained by some unwanted punishable jealous homiciding criminals).
World's more or, less Six Billions peoples would must carry, in 2007, "an I.D.", "a conditional Work-Permit", "a conditional Driving License", and "a conditional Residency Permit". Otherwise, we are not the responssible Civillized Peoples(and 'would practise the Discrimination & homiciding policies).
Other-countries' peoples are not our enemies; but the "World's poverty, illeteracy, homelessness, hungers, homiciding-practices, discrimination, diseases-without-treatments-medicines, non-working-peoples are our enemies, to destroy".
Thanks, regards !
"An American Patriot Worker"!
egin forwarded message:
From: My Apple Store
Date: July 28, 2007 11:46:09 AM EDT
To: webadmin@mikebloomberg.com
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov, debaprasaddas@hotmail.com, unewyork2000@yahoo.com, worldcitizen2999@yahoo.com, Billy Smith , billconwell@hotmail.com, bill@conwellpdx.com, rachelhostetler@hotmail.com
Subject: NY-City would get Mike BloomBerg, as mayor, to issue the U.S.-Historical NY-City I.D.-Cards(for any World-COUNTRY-peoples, in the NY-City, who are NY-City-Residents, with any status, Visitors, Travellers, Tourists, Students, Workers, Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Lawyers, Accountants, Musicians,Polyticians, any travellers, in transit, even for an hour in the NY-City)!
egin forwarded message:
From: My Apple Store
Date: July 28, 2007 11:04:21 AM EDT
To: aruiz@edit.nydailynews.com
Cc: unewyork2000@yahoo.com, president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: The U.S.-Constitutional Formula, to lead the World by the U.S.-Civillization(includes Human Rights, Civil Rights, rehabilitations of the homeless hard-working foreign-workers, in the U.S.A., who are just good & sacrificing, for the U.S.A.-system to grow further)!
The U.S.A. is to lead & maintain the World's Human Civil Rights !
The "U.S.-WISE-President Bush and other Wise Senators, Wise House Representatives, wise-Mayor of Los Angeles City-Antonio R. Villarigosa, wise NYC-Mayor-Mike Bloomberg" would prove they are the most U.S.-Patriot(by signing a new Law, to withhold abuse & deportation-orders, alongwith the discriminations, on the all Foreign-born-workers, in the U.S.A.,who are working hard for the less, for more than three years, taking less from the U.S.A.).
The Criminal-workers would be corrected in the Correctional Center. The U.S.-Constitutional facts want the "spread of the U.S.-faiths, round the World, which would make the U.S.A., more stable, stronger, enemey-less".
[Today some terrorist-like senators(Cornyn, Kyl, Vitter, Session, etc. are showing disrespects on the fundamental U.S.-Constitutional-facts, (to reveal there long-run hidden anti-U.S. activities), and they are supposed to be charged with the non-Patriot U.S.-Citizens, unmarked & unpunished. It is reducing the Quality of the U.S.-Expansion-program, in the outer-World; or, it is shrinking U.S.A.-system. These senators, alongwith some other House , State , City Officials, in the U.S.A., are against the U.S.-Patriiotism, or, 'are the U.S.-Traitors.
All the five former and the present U..S.-President find enough reasons & grounds(parallel to the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula to build the U.S..A. stronger & advancing, Domestically & Internationally) ,
to Legallize & Rehabilitate "the foreign-born homeless but hard-working sacrificing U.S.-revenue-ADDING foreign-workers, in the U.S.-Cities, Towns, Villages, Counties, who are to add the strength of the U.S.-Economical-Values, in the International-Scale".
I believe any U.S.-President is the most U.S.-Patriotic Person. At this context, "working against the U.S.-President, or, 'against the U.S..-Senators, 'against the U.S.-Employers(who are driving forward the U.S.-Economical motion & strength), on the issues of the Legallization & rehabilitations (of the U.S.--friiendly foreign-workers, available in the U.S.A.)" is NOTHING but "an attack on the U.S.-Patriotism". Senators(like Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions, Kyl, etc.), or, the House Reps.(like Sensenbernner, Nancy Pelosi, etc.), or , the other few State, City officials, are just against the "U.S.-Constitution, U.S.-Patriotism, etc. The U.S.-Presidents(Carter,Reagan, Senior Bush, Bill Clinton, Junior Bush) have storngly recommended(staying just parallel to the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula), "to legallize & rehabilitate the homeless, hard-working, sacrificing, U.S.-friendly, foreign-workers, available in the U.S.A., who are just busy or, serving in the U.S.-Industries, for the growth of the U.S.-National-Patriotic-Economical-Structures-Strengths-Advancements in the World". In the stupid-excuse of the word-Amneesty, "all the evil-practices of the abuse, discriminations, deportations, etc. on the homeless hard-working, sacrificing, U.S.-friendly, foreign-workers", are "anti-U.S.-Patriotism-practices, or, the anti-U.S.-Constitutional-Practices".
The U.S.-Constitution or, the U.S.-Patriotism STRICTLY prohibits "the discriminatiions, abuse, deportations, tortures, etc. evil-practices, or, the non-civillized practices, on the U.S.-friendly hard-working-workers, in the U.S.A.".
These "INCOMPLETE or, THE real LESS EDUCATED Polytical Persons(like Sensenbernner, Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions,Kyl, etc.)" on the right U.S.-Constitutional-Analysis, deserves a heavy U.S.-Govt.-levelled U.S.-Punishments & Jail-term-seggregations, as they are creating "an U.S.-Wave, unnecessarily & mistakefully, to hurt the U.S.-Constitutional-Policies & the U.S.-Patriotism".
The President Bush's (alongwith the Senators, Ted Kennedey, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, etc.) the recent U.S.-Economical-Constitutional-Patriotism parallel "Comprehenssive U.S.-Immigration-Reform-Bill-2007" has been attempted to kill in June-2007, (by the above Terrorist minded anti-U.S.-Patriot-Senators, like Cornyn, Vitter, Sessions, etc.), just to kill & hurt "the U.S.-Constitutional-Policies, U.S.-Patriotism, U.S.-National-Patriotic-Homeland-Economical-Industrial-Growth".
It is undoubted, that the U.S.-President Bush, and the other few U.S.-Patriotic-Senators(Ted Kennedey, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, etc.) were & are highly U.S.-Patriotic or, the U.S.-Constitutional wise persons, to make an attempt "to reinforce the U.S.-Domestic-Industrial-Agricultural-Constructional-Developmental-Economical-Employment-growth(through the 2007-Comprehenssive-U.S.-Immigration-Reform-June-Bill)", (for a permanent future of the U.S.-country-growth), have proved themselves, as the "U.S.-Patriot, U.S.-Constitutional-Persons", (who are temporarily obstructed, illegally, by the few incomplete & jealous-minded U.S.-traitor-Senators-Polyticians, unfortunately).
The wise-U.S.-President Bush and the other wise-U.S.-Patriotic-Senators, or, the U.S.-patriiotic-Polytical-Leaders(who are set to do the good for the U.S.-homeland-Industries-Economical-System, for it's permanent future), would now fetch an U.S.-Bill, to punish & stop "the all triator-U.S.-Senators(who are to weaken U.S.-Homeland-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Industrial-Economical-System, to give more business & money, to the U.S.-rival-economical-system)".
Next thing to do that, "all those traitor-marked dishonest and U.S.-Rival-Agent-U.S.-Senators(who are to do damages, or, to weaken the U.S.-Homeland-Domestic-Industrial-Economical-System-Growth-Advancements BASED ON the use of the hard-working, homeless, sacrificing, low-cost foreign-workers, readily available in the U.S.A.) would be warned and suspended from the U.S.-Senates-Houses-Polytical-platforms, for the next six years.
The wise-U.S.-PATRIOT-President, wise-U.S.-Patriot-Senators-House-Reps., would must bring back & pass
"the U.S..-President-2007-Bi-Partisan-comprehenssive-U.S.-Immigration-Reform-Bill, in 2007", to make "an Win of the U.S.-Constitutional-Formula and the U.S.-Patriotism(to advance & re-inforce the U.S.-Homeland-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Industrial-Economical-Employment-Export-growths, against the U.S.-Rival-Economical-Countries)".
If the U.S.-President Bush, and the other U.S.-Senators, House-Reps., Polytical-Leaders, are busy on "the War on Terrorism", then "they must need" to "continue the War on the home-grown terrorist-minded non-U.S.-Patriot-Senators,House-Reps.,Polytical-Leaders, etc., (who are the secret U.S.-Rival-agents, to give the huge business-economical-growths, in the future, to the all other U.S.-Rival-COUNTRIES-Economical-systems, in the future, by deporting 12-millions hard-working-sacrificing-low-cost-productive-workers from the U.S.-Homeland-Industries-Agricultural-Constructional-Housing-Economical-Working-fields)".
The honest responssible WISE-U.S.President, WISE-U.S.-Senators, wise-House-Reps., U.S.-Polyticians, etc. would now team up (and come down on the Streets of the U.S.A., on the White-House's Senate & House Floors) "to withhold all the harmful & stupid U.S.-Deportation-Orders, on the all the U.S.-friendly, hard-working sacrificing low-cost foreign-workers(in the U.S.A.), if the foreign-workers are not any such harmful wild criminals".
This would be the U.S.-Constitutional and the U.S.-National-Patriotic-Priority-work, (to re-inforce the U.S.-National-Homeland-Domestic-Industrial-Economical-Growths-Advancements).
The all kinds of the "Abuse, discriminations, deportatiions, tortures(on the U.S.-friendly, hard-working, sacrificing, low-cost foreign-workers, in the U.S.A.)", would be stopped & prohibited, now , "by a new U.S.-Patriotic U.S.-Economical-Worker-Law-2007", just "to respect the U.S.-Constitution, one more time, again, in the historical-2007".]
The U.S.-friendly, all the homeless, Hard-working, sacrificing, low-cost, foreign-workers(who are already busy, with a valuable-services, in the U.S.-National-Homeland-Industries, just to boost up the U.S.-Homeland-Industries-Economics, with a better economical & productive services), who are not any such harmful & wild criminals, would must "get the U.S.-I.D., NO-DISCRIMINATIONS, U.S.-Work-Permit, U.S.-Driving-License, U.S.-Residency-Permits". This would be just the parallel & positive to the "civillized U.S.-Constitutional-Formula, U.S.-Patriotism, required to build the U.S.A., better, stronger, growing, advancing domesticallly & internationally".
Any Human Being, (criminal or, non-criminal), in the World(at it's any part) would must carry an I.D., conditional-Work-Permit, conditional-Driving--License. Otherwise, it would be counted as a Discrimination, a homiciding-policy(maintained by some unwanted punishable jealous homiciding criminals).
World's more or, less Six Billions peoples would must carry, in 2007, "an I.D.", "a conditional Work-Permit", "a conditional Driving License", and "a conditional Residency Permit". Otherwise, we are not the responssible Civillized Peoples(and 'would practise the Discrimination & homiciding policies).
Other-countries' peoples are not our enemies; but the "World's poverty, illeteracy, homelessness, hungers, homiciding-practices, discrimination, diseases-without-treatments-medicines, non-working-peoples are our enemies, to destroy".
Thanks, regards !
"An American Patriot Worker"!
Wow, that was an AP story on WNBC's site? It has the kind of inaccuracies I've come to accept from Gothamist (sorry, Jen), but not from a legitimate news-gathering organization. The "landmarked but leaking complex overlooking the East River"? Landmarked by whom? I'm pretty sure neither the Landmarks Preservation Commission nor the National Register of Historic Places have the authority to do that to non-US, non-NYC territory. The "National Security Council"? What nation? It's the Security Council, for crying out loud. AP sure has gone downhill.
How come I was charged NYC sales tax when I bought something at the UN Gift shop?
Wow... no fire sprinklers in a building like that?
What sort of insurance carrier in its right mind would insure that?