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This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.
> Rising 60 stories along the East River of Manhattan, 1 Seaport at 161 Maiden Lane, was a luxury condo tower poised to become another iconic real estate venture in the city. However, after major construction mistakes were made, the tower and its owners entered a deep hole of financial turmoil, litigation and failed promises. All of this has left a once $400 million condo tower, completely abandoned in one of the densest cities on earth, now tilting precariously to one side. This is New York's leaning, abandoned condo tower.
This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.
What is the Dyatlov threshold?
This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.
What is the Dyatlov threshold?
Little trivia about... The other famous leaning tower. Pisa has a very soft soil, and there are other 2 leaning bell towers. One is even more tilted than the tower of Pisa. Although much smaller, its tilt is quite strong imho. https://www.pisatoday.it/cronaca/torri-pendenti-pisa.html The cathedral of Pisa is slightly leaning as well. If you look at the base just above the steps on its side facing the lawm, you can se…
Abandoned - 1 Seaport (New York's Leaning Tower) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8lrUPaLIY - Feb 2024 > Rising 60 stories along the East River of Manhattan, 1 Seaport at 161 Maiden Lane, was a luxury condo tower poised to become another iconic real estate venture in the city. However, after major construction mistakes were made, the tower and its owners entered a deep hole of financial turmoil, litigation and fai…
Has any skyscraper actually just tipped over?
Also since it talked about the leaning tower of Pisa: the Civic tower in Pavia (1989) and original Campanile in Venice (1902), probably more examples like that.
Has any skyscraper actually just tipped over?
Not that I can see, but the Citicorp Center in NYC could have if not for emergency actions that were taken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_cr...
Sounds like Millenium Tower in SF https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/millennium-...