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Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Building to the Sky, With a Plan for Rising Waters

Author:     DAVID W. DUNLAP
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     JAN. 26, 2017
Link: Building to the Sky, With a Plan for Rising Waters
Stephan:   In Republican Trump world climate change is a hoax. In the real world, people who have really valuable real estate like sky scrapers take it very seriously and are making accommodations. Here's some information on what that is looking like.

The American Copper Buildings, just right of the Empire State Building, were designed so that tenants could live in their apartments for at least a week if the area floods.
Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times

There is a breathtaking view of the mid-Manhattan skyline, pierced by the Empire State Building, from the 48th floor of the taller of two new copper-clad apartment towers along the East River, just south of the United Nations.

No plutocrat will enjoy it, however. This impressive penthouse aerie is hogged by five emergency generators. The window is already blocked by a bank of electrical switchgear. For the developers, giving up premium space to machinery is insurance against an ominous future: They want tenants in the towers’ 760 apartments to be able to live in their apartments for at least a week, no matter how high floodwaters may reach nor how long the power is out.

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1 Comment

  1. shovland on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 6:20 am

    Those buildings will be death traps if we have a big earthquake on the New Madrid fault that disrupts the supply of fuel to the East Coast.