Somebody better call a Fung Waaaaaahhhhhmbulance.

+1

Hong Kong Station has mediocre noodles anyway. Cool logo, though, even though they stole the idea from the actual metro station on Hong Kong's subway line.

those buildings are just as old as the walk ups on ludlow, stanton, pitt, maybe we should bulldoze those.

Fair point, but Chinatown landlords are also notorious for subdividing apartments to cram more people in (splitting apartments both horizontally and vertically!). This can't be beneficial to the buildings' structure.

isn't that the same situation originally in these tenements when the Jews and Polish arrived to America?

it's good to rich.

Chinatown is looking more these days like a mild version of KOWLOON WALLED CITY, the whole place looks like it needs to be bulldozed.

Chinatown is full of shit buildings on the verge of collapse. I should know -- I lived in one for 4.5 years. You could tell there was something wrong the way the staircases themselves didn't even seem level as you walked up them...thank God I made it out!

yeah, I was gonna say what makes that building different from all the others?

sorry, but that place is just gross!

if you drop anything there, it's best to just leave it.

Hey if you know a better way than demolition to get rid of rent stabilized tenants with no recourse, owners would like to hear it

Is anyone reporting if the residents were able to remove any of their belongings?

It's heartbreaking to me for people so down on their luck to possibly now lose, literally, everything they own.

In a fair world, the building would come down, a new one put up, and the developer would offer the displaced residents first dibs on a brand new apartment (at their old rate, of course).

While this sucks and the landlord seems negligible, I can't help but pause to at least sympathize with the fact that his/her property is getting beaten down by neighboring construction. Maybe they wanted it this way and maybe they're not at all upset, but I can't imagine that fixing a crumbling building would have been at all cost-effective for the landlord.

Landlord will pay a fine and demolishing costs.

I've read the city wants the buildings adjacent to the HK supermarket fire torn down, more lots just opened up.

in a related case of suspicious chinatown demolition---was it ever cleared up why the building that was on fire on east broadway demolished so quickly- within a day or two? was arson ever suspected or even investigated?

That building was near collapse anyway after the fire. You could tear it down in a controlled fashion or let it fall by itself.

It'll be sad to see yet another new building in Chinatown that doesn't fit in with the neighborhood. But then again, there isn't anything architecturally significant about this Hester building. At least Mott below Canal looks mostly like it has for many decades, although the Chase building stands out like a sore thumb.

What about the landlord of this building? Isn't there a vacant jail cell for him? Probably not.

The landlord will go on to sue the owners of the neighboring properties and get more than what his building was worth, especially after letting it fall apart.

He may even get enough to start financing a luxury building on his site.

Is there no justice?

Charlotte Street 21st century style. Only Gasoline Gomez is missing.

this must be so satisfying to amanda burdon and bloomberg. everything is going as planned! this "process" makes it so much easier to tear down buildings and build condos.

The Department of Buildings is probably the most corrupt agency in this corrupt city.

an open lot just opened up.

and with the zoning changed will build to new owners specs.