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Notice that she had enough room for a King size bed. Most studios today do not.
Smart cookie using the YMCA for her hot showers.
Apparently she used the apartment only for sleeping and storing her "stuff." Probably ate all her meals out.
I have respect for someone who can beat a system rigged against him or her.
<Perhaps the City should buy Y memberships for the homeless?>
Notice that she had enough room for a King size bed. Most studios today do not.
Smart cookie using the YMCA for her hot showers.
Apparently she used the apartment only for sleeping and storing her "stuff." Probably ate all her meals out.
I have respect for someone who can beat a system rigged against him or her.
<Perhaps the City should buy Y memberships for the homeless?>
Don't know if the system was "rigged" or whatever against the deceased. If it was LL would have been allowed to bring that apartment up to at least 1960's standards regardless of what tenant wanted.
Cold water flats were around late as the 1950's, but largely had vanished either because apartments were renovated upon vacancy to bring up to date, and or the buildings (usually old tenements/walk-ups) were torn down.
In days when cold water flats did reign (and there were plenty in the EV, WV, LES, Yorkville, and GV), it was either boiling water on stoves and using a wash tub, or the "public baths". At 80 some add years old guess the YMCA was a better (and safer) alternative to boiling water on stove.
Just realized Ms. O'Grady was run over by that vehicle just outside her home; how sad. Would have been wonderful to sit down and speak with her; the memories and stories she must have had about GV/WV area from the 1950's through 1970's or so would have been priceless.
The woman lived to see Saint Vincent's hospital (one block west) close and turned into luxury housing, and much of the WV/GV going that way as well.
I find the story fascinating. How old school her apartment was and how she lived. I enjoyed the news article.
No disrespect to the dead; but that apartment was a dump. Leave us not get misty eyed or anything, it is what it is. Just look at pictures of the place.
No disrespect to the dead; but that apartment was a dump. Leave us not get misty eyed or anything, it is what it is. Just look at pictures of the place.
i think she was a complete nut job.
She was 84, died a terrible way, i will give you that. but, anyone over 80 that passes, i dont care.
they had a full life and too many young people are dying or have cancer.
She lived in a complete pig stuy, like a complete pig.
The pictures shown were that of a dirty apartment.
but one question, if she didnt have heat or hot water, were there other apartments in the building that didnt have it either?
or did the pipes by-pass her apartment.
I got the impression there was another tenant in the building, then the part where there was a fire, it seemed like there were more tenants.
im a little confused on that. What type of building was it, Im thinking wlk up tenement....
but how can some apartments have heat and others didnt.
She lived by candlelight, so no electricity either.
id be afraid with all the crap she had in her filthy apartment that she would be considered a fire hazzard.
i think she was a complete nut job.
She was 84, died a terrible way, i will give you that. but, anyone over 80 that passes, i dont care.
they had a full life and too many young people are dying or have cancer.
She lived in a complete pig stuy, like a complete pig.
The pictures shown were that of a dirty apartment.
but one question, if she didnt have heat or hot water, were there other apartments in the building that didnt have it either?
or did the pipes by-pass her apartment.
I got the impression there was another tenant in the building, then the part where there was a fire, it seemed like there were more tenants.
im a little confused on that. What type of building was it, Im thinking wlk up tenement....
but how can some apartments have heat and others didnt.
She lived by candlelight, so no electricity either.
id be afraid with all the crap she had in her filthy apartment that she would be considered a fire hazzard.
So because she lived in squaller we can’t feel sad about her death?
I agree the place is a wreck, but I too would of loved to hear her stories.
Didn't say myself nor anyone else was to mourn Ms. O'Grady's passing; just that her apartment was a "dump", and wouldn't have it even for $28/month.
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