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The Reason she’s getting a bill for the carpark is a hangover from the way the council’s lumped big chunks…
Wellington has a problem with water. Water is taken from the Hutt River, pumped into storage lakes thence into the…
great comment from an Allan over on Scoop: “There is Tiaki Wai advertising all over the place especially all over…
Yes – debacle from the word Go. Re those that have a garage with their apartment, on a different Unit…
The whole debacle started with the decision to send out water invoices weeks before the new rates ones. The Council…
Yes indeed, that appears to have been the problem. A simple welding on of steel plates to those columns would…
Just in from the NYT: “engineers who examined both the drawings and photographs of the buckled columns said there was…
There are grand plans for Penn Station (“the busiest station in the western hemishere”), delivered by President Donald J. Trump…
Yes – quakes are almost non-existent on the East Coast of the USA, although obv plenty on the West Coast.…
Quakes are far less of a problem in NYC, though high winds can be at times.
For further context, the Pfizer Building opened in 1960-61. Then again, many older NYC skyscrapers haven’t had the same issues.
Its now even made it to B1M… https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kxb5Wz8aL3Q
This has not gone away – in fact, it is more important now then ever. So it may be well…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Farley_Building “The Farley Building consists of the old general post office building, completed in 1914, and its western annex, completed…
One thing that really does surprise me, is that all the windows appear to be sealed – ie non-opening. For…
Just in: “Buckling Manhattan High Rise Becomes Focus of Criminal Investigation. “The inquiry, being conducted by the New York City…
I’m thinking that probably there is going to be a whole lot more studying and checking of the drawings for…
But but but but – I LIKE Martin Scorcese. Not sure that I like the sound of Nathan Berman…
Thanks 60 – glad you liked the pix. I spent so long scouting the internet and finding the pix, that…
There is a GREAT online visualisation tool that spells out the total rates increase (with breakdowns) in a fabulously simple…