The news regarding the East Broadway fire damage worsens with the passing of each day. Late last night, a reliable source sent along the following intel:
Buildings to be demolished: 107, 105, 103, 101, 99 East Broadway. Apparently their foundation is on the same line as the marketplace, so everything is going [to] come down altogether. Should be happening very soon.Simply put, much of the neighborhood is still in shock over it all. Some passing folks take pause from a busy routine to grasp the severity of the situation, as if paying final respects to a decimated block.
FULL FIRE COVERAGE HERE
11 comments:
very sad and upsetting. is it too paranoid to think there might be some backroom scheming involved in this? taking down a whole block would make room for a big, fat, glass tower.
The entire row is probably in bad shape after being neglected for 100 years. The fire simply revealed the underlying condition. The scary thing is that there like are many such blocks on the lower east side and in other old neighborhoods built similarly.
very suspicious power play, especially since that massive new building across the street (where the hardware store was) just went up- blasting the previous height limitations. this "foundation" schpiel allows the most massive development in chinatown since the viciously ugly confucius towers. do please look into arson as a distinct possibility, as well as question any questions related to the so called "foundation" necessitating the destruction of all those buildings-
This makes no sense, couldn't they at least sacrifice the outermost building and then put up a brace against the remaining buildings until something permanent is built? Isn't that what's happening with the building across the street from the DOB (Bway & Reade)? This is BS, any word on what caused this fire in the first place?
I feel for the residents and workers in those buildings, I hope they are able to go in and take a few belongings before the buildings are gone and replaced with some cheap shiny glass turd.
@ Arson - For what its worth the new building across the street is commercial only, there are no apartments (Ilive next door to it on Division St).
I don't really understand what it means by foundations on the 'same line'. It's hard to imagine a building 125ft from the Hong Kong can not be shored up/ underpinned.
What odds on third hotel on the block, although the fools a Division and Eldridge havent got thir shit together yet.
MUFC Chinatown Branch
Stinks of Bloomberg's lust for glass towers and hatred of working people. A year or two ago, he declared Chinatown "underutilized." Yeah, Mike it's underutilized because the streets are teeming with the wrong kind of people: the unrich.
what's a line of bullshit. you better get a more reliable source.
"Apparently their foundation is on the same line as the marketplace"
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I have family that lives in the one of the building. Anyway we could actually verify this info?
This is terrible.
103 E broadway houses Tan Wong Restaurant Inc. My grandmother used to live in a nursing home nearby and my sister and I used to stop by a few times a month to pick up wonton mein and nai cha for her. Years later, my sister moved to DC and it's just me stopping by to pick up the noodles and tea and they still ask how she's doing.
The whole thing reeks of something fishy, and its not the fish market.
-AD
Hey, it must be one of those insurance schemes
that's bs. if the foundation is unstable, y r we allowed to stay in these buildings? i live in 101. since we're here, i'm guessing there's people living in 99 too.
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