You can’t comb over this, Trump.
So I am working at home today and suddenly I heard this INSANE LOUD sound. Like the sound of a building crashing. And I kind of sit at my desk/kitchen table/coat rack thinking, oh man, do I go outside? Do I want to see whatever it is that made that sound? Then I heard the ambulances and the fire trucks and then I heard helicopters and people yelling. So I thought, do I really want to know what’s going on? Am I better off not knowing? I am conflicted. So I think, OK. I’ll go outside, and be that rubber-necking gawking asshole.
Turns out there were a lot of other rubber-necking gawking assholes gathered on my street because they had evacuated some of the buildings in the area. Apparently there was an accident at the construction site for the new Trump “Hotel/Condominium” on Spring and Varick. It’s not totally clear what happened, but sounds like scaffolding fell, wet concrete and debris fell and hit nearby buildings, the 42nd floor collapsed into the 41st floor, and one construction fell to his death. It’s bad. That Trump Tower has been a huge controversy mostly because Trump is a total dick and really sleazed out on this project. It’s a huge tower that’s going up and he had to finagle the zoning in order to do it. Is it a hotel? Is it a condo? Who can be sure!
According to NY Times: Owners will be permitted to live in those apartments for 120 days out of the year, or 29 days out of any consecutive 36 days; when not living there, owners will be able to rent out their apartments.
Ha ha ha, he is not fooling anyone, except I guess for the city officials who let them do this garbage.
Trump had problems with the area being landmark so they are racing to finish the project before the courts decide on it. This means accidents happen. The whole thing is sketchy. But more importantly, IT IS UGLY. Like fine, if you’re gonna be a dick, at least make it cool. But you know, it’s Trump. I remember watching an MTV Cribs (best show ever) with Trump and it totally blew my mind how ugly the whole thing was. I’m like this is a joke, right? LIFE-SIZE CERAMIC TIGERS. That’s all I have to say.
I have a question…why 29/36 days. Why not 28/36 or 30/36?
It does seem vvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrryyy sketchy. I mean…holy crap! The guy already has life-size ceramic tigers AND a reality tv show.And while CLEARLY he’s saving money at the hairdressers, a whole building? WTF?
That little incident is a sign, Annie. A very bad sign…hmmm…
Haha.
The man is a walking comb over. Of course he’s gonna cut corners and build shite shitfully. He always has and it’s only about time that this has happened.I hope New York prosecutes.
Thank goodness he’s not Imelda Marcos, ‘though he almost is. She built a shithole in Manila (the Opera house I think) at breakneck speed to avoid court action and when it collapsed burying 40 something workers up to thier waists and thighs in wet cement that of course subsequently set hard, she ordered that their still live bodies all be cut off at the new floor level with a chain saw and rendered over so they could start work again the next day!
maddie: That is a good question. 29/36 days seems really lame. I wish I was at the negotiations for that one. NO, I DON’T WANT ANYTHING LESS THAN 29 DAYS OUT OF 37. Shit….29 out of 36? FINE BUT THEN I GET TO PUT UP A REALLY UGLY BUILDING.
Simon: Agreed. I think Earth should prosecute him. As punishment Trump should watch his own show. Is that really true about Imedla? That’s insane.
If it walks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck…Trump is a tool. The people who should be ashamed and sued are those on the planning commision. I too would have liked to have been at that negotiation…”Here are some hookers and cocaine, we’ll make it sound as if you negotiated.” 3 day binge later…let’s see what we agreed to…crap.
Bryan: Word to that. Trump is a doosh and a half. There’s a whole mob tie to the thing too, NY Times did this huge expose and I remember being like, great, a mafia condo. There’s gonna be gold fixtures everywhere. LAME
I wish to have been in that negotiation too. Imaging being one of those city officials there, like, Ok, you get the tower, I get the money, we both get free sex. Ooops, sorry free sex was not in this meeting, with you just was dick tower and money.
This Trump must have some kind of inferiority complex he is putting up a lot of those towers around the world, Las vegas, Miami, Chicago (really ugly), Panama, Chile and so on… You know he´s dick must be really sort, so he decides to arise a lot of towers to compensate. Well, better not to know.
By the way. LIFE SIZE TIGERS, Can I get one of those for my office, it suits perfect with one of my bosses
I read about it shortly after her and her husbands regime collapsed some ten years ago. It was in an article about her specific corruptions. I am sorry but i can’t remeber the source, but i do remember it said that the building is badly haunted and is now unused and that Manila workers unions hold an annual memorial at the site.
P.S. I have a nieghbour across the way from the wombat shooter who has two life size glazed ceramic black panthers on either side of her patio verandah. When she moved in, we weren’t introduced and for a while we thought it was a pair of Bhuddah’s. No such luck. Her phone went down and she knocked on our door one day, by way of introduction, to ask to use ours and I swear she sounded like a gangsters mole when dealing with the phone company and then us. You know that sort of diachotomous transaction when talking to two seperate sorts of people at the same time, that verges on dual personality disorder? And the make up and hair do, and then then we visited and the black panthers confirmed it. We have artless fuck type mob people moving into the woods. I gotta hand it to her though; her phone came back on pretty quick.
Annie: Great, at least you’ll know what shiny, animal-skin suit is in fashion at all times. This season I think it’s bat.
Pedro: You can get one here but I don’t think it’s made of ceramic. However, it is life-sized and is only $2100. What a bargain!
Simon: That is ridiculous, I hadn’t heard about it, but I believe it. Your neighbors are really awesome. My neighbors aren’t that spectacular. No life size tigers or wombat killers. Just regular people who make too much noise. We should do an apartment swap. I would like to see a wombat in real life. And I’m sure you’d like to explore what it’s like living in a 187 sq ft apartment, right?
Bryan: Bat? I thought it was Komodo dragon. I just can’t keep up with fashion. Trump is so cutting edge!
Cate and I conferred and think it would be a great idea to do an abode swap for about two weeks max.(when we have some money for the airline tickets and the kids can be trusted with our relatives).
Our kitchen is about twice the size of your whole place and we have three acres of land until we either get nieghbours one side or the state forest on the other. We’d love to do New York and you might like the isolation out here, which is pretty awsome.
At night all you can hear is insects or rain pattering and the occaisional large tree falling over in the forest, and fossicking wombats and the feral dears in winter. Oh and the wombat killer sometimes lets off a 303 and in the day he sometimes hoons around onh a loud motorbike.
It’s one hours drive to the nearest town and on a clear night there is about a billion stars to look at. If you want to do it, you should bring a friend or you’ll get cabin fever for sure, unless we can’t afford to do New York in which case, you’re invited anyway.
He is a trendsetter, although in private I would imagine his predilictions run more toward ocelot kitten fur bathed in the the tears of orphaned penquin chicks.
Simon: It sounds about the EXACT OPPOSTIE of my apartment. You guys would cry. Noise, smells like bacon and/or onions from the restaurant downstairs, critters that are not as cute as wombats, noisy neighbors, small space, honking cars.
Bryan: I heard he wears jewelry made out of the teeth of Tibetan monks.
Oh my God! I just realised. The teeth of tibetan monks is as goulish as Imelda Marcos’ Opera house if you think about it. The man’s a f’kn’ loon.