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The old buildings, even with attempts at historic preservation, dwindle in numbers every year anyhow and replacing them with big glass boxes won’t do anything towards lowering rent as newer housing stock tends to be more expensive. There’s plenty of glass box construction going on anyhow in NYC and in many, many cities in the US and around the world—might as well try keeping some of what makes NYC unique, no? You did say you wanted to destroy all of the buildings that weren’t renovated—perhaps passing changed to building codes would be better than dictating their destruction.
Lol, there's the 1938 code, 1968 code, 2008 code, and 2014 code
They change the codes
Thats not the problem
It simply cost too much money to maintain these structures
If you were in a Landmarked District, some had no choice but to sell.
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Lol, there's the 1938 code, 1968 code, 2008 code, and 2014 code
They change the codes
Thats not the problem
It simply cost too much money to maintain these structures
If you were in a Landmarked District, some had no choice but to sell.
Yea, it cost too much money relative to the cost of the house and the income of its residents, but those factors have changed quite a bit over the decades and there have been new techniques and materials to make this work now.
There are plenty of glass boxes being built everywhere. I see little reason to demolish historic bouses now especially as the march of time keeps on taking buildings down anyhow.
Yea, it cost too much money relative to the cost of the house and the income of its residents, but those factors have changed quite a bit over the decades and there have been new techniques and materials to make this work now.
There are plenty of glass boxes being built everywhere. I see little reason to demolish historic bouses now especially as the march of time keeps on taking buildings down anyhow.
Nahh bro
Contractors cost money
and then depending on materials they may have to hire subs who have certain expertise in sandstone, repairing cornices, etc
You forget, ppl dont build like that anymore
So now you gotta find ppl that still do...
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and then depending on materials they may have to hire subs who have certain expertise in sandstone, repairing cornices, etc
You forget, ppl dont build like that anymore
So now you gotta find ppl that still do...
I know that because I know people who have bought and renovated old brownstones and tenements and have done work from just bringing things up to code to gut rehabs. This was certainly not an affordable option when it was small homeowners who bought their rowhouses for less than six figures or for apartment buildings where 1 bedrooms were less than a thousand a month, but that’s also not the city we’re living in these days.
Just a long lost memory.................... true or false? we'll never know.
Anybody that's been around for years knew how Bushwick " landlords solved their problems " back in the early 70's.
I could remember the neighbors shouting " Bushwick is burning , Bushwick is burning !"
We'd all run up to the roof tops and watch buildings go up in smoke one by one.
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