I know someone who lived in a converted office in FiDi. The building itself was fine, it seemed like any other luxury tower in the area, and the building's exterior was cool, but the hallways and floorplans were really weird because they needed to be long and snake around other stuff.

https://www.renttwentyexchange.com/apartments/ny/new-york/availability

This building was built in the 1930s, I bet living in an office building made after they all became glass boxes would be a lot worse.

Oh, if these were left-wingers you may be sure that dozens of cops would show.

It’s Cropsey

Damn, developers are just recovering from all those costly warehouse-to-home conversions in Brooklyn. Poor things

This is done all the time. You just use the walls so you don’t violate the floor plate.

Wall mounted toilets are common in retrofits. They’re so common most Home Depot’s have them in stock. It’s not even a special order kinda thing. I can walk out with one in an hour.

> It’s not a difficult engineering task.

No, it very much is difficult and expensive. Consider how many toilets and sinks are on a floor and where they are located in an office building. There's probably a sink in the break room and a row or two of toilets, separated by gender. Now split up the floor plan into 6 apartments. Where do you set up (at least) 5 extra bathrooms and kitchens without completely ripping up the floors, which are probably concrete? Can the building handle that much water and and sewage out?

That's all true but not particularly relevant to the diad of comments you've responded to here.

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When u use to live in that neighborhood i found one time since birds hanged upside down by their feet. On was still alive and freed but man it suck to see it.

As an animal lover, I do what I can to help the animals in my community/society. I've seen some unique injuries to some kittens and cats, but this looks specific. . . I've once had to treat a car with a degloved tail. It was brutal, but it was caught on a fence.

So some people, granted, they do this on their time, but there are a group who tend to the cats in the neighborhood. I would say maybe do some rounds with a friend or something to kind of survey the scene and if you see something. I'm not saying feed the cats or make it a job, but just be aware of the regular cats of the hood and people too. You'll get an idea of what and who. Sorry this is happening to those little kitties. . . Evil is always amongst good, but most times it's the undeserving who are often belted with the disgust of man. . .

Well you need to change the building code and multiple dwelling code. You need light and air or mechanical ventilation for living areas. Hence the set backs, the courtyards etc of older buildings

Like places that are under lease but only 50% or less utilized due to hybrid/WFH companies who don’t plan on renewing or downsizing if they do?

If you haven’t already done so, post to local FB groups and reach out to the NYPD. Those poor kitties, this is how serial killers start before moving onto torturing and killing people.

Thanks for confirmation. I’m at a restaurant, waiting for food. I guess that’s a click I don’t need in my life.

Okay, let's take tax breaks off the table. Do you think some zoning restrictions can go away? Perhaps the requirement that every bedroom have a window? Maybe loosen some plumbing regulations. Are these things we can concede on if it reduces the cost of conversions? Or are we going to cling to everything.

$28M is a rounding error. Though I'm sure if they handed them out to New Yorkers many would gladly take them.

NYP is free, wildly available and quick to cover local stories. NYT, NY Daily, etc local coverage suck and hide behind paywalls. NYP even beat local tv new coverage to breaking stories and followups. Ppl shiet on NYP and rightfully but they do local coverage better than most.

Nsfw

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Alternatively, “Don’t Poop On The” Street.

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> Children, this is what happens to your brain when you orient everything in your life around cars.

Glad you said it and not me, I’m conversing with kids who haven’t lived long enough to see the ebbs and flow of NYC population/hype/cultural shifts.

Sure convert them all to residential. Next complaint will be with all this influx of units that most can't afford to rent increased the city vacancy rate above 5% thus ending rent stabilization. Real estate lobby prob dreaming of this day.

>I know the post is very trashy and sensational

The Post is 100% a trashy tabloid, but their sensationalist coverage of the Alba incident played a significant role in Bragg's Office dropping charges in the Jose Alba case.

They had the exclusive with the security camera footage which vindicated him completely and made it a major cover story. The video turned a local crime story into national news.

Given the evidence, the case would have been dismissed anyway, but who knows how long that process would have taken had The Post not leaked the video.

Keep in mind Bragg's Office had the video the entire time and still not only arrested Alba, but wanted to pursue murder charges against him.

jesus - really? so funny...