NYC explosion (gas leak) (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

Just walked by there.

So strange... kinda nice day (brisk) with lots of people out and about in the EVil. Everybody just going around yada-yada-ing, brunching, leading their normal lives... as they should of course. But at the same time, so many lives upended (and lost) in such a devastating way. That's what came back to me today from our own far-less monumental event- all these people walking around giggling and chirping, and my life was in a complete ####-storm. Given the fire after the explosion, I'm sure it's unreasonable for me to keep hoping they find those two missing people alive under there... but I'm still hoping.

 

[El Floppo]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years. making the rounds on our neighborhood FB friends.

I'm of the belief that when people err, it's a result of some combination of stupidity, laziness or thoughtlessness. we have the holy trifecta here.

 

[Swing 51]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

 

[Nick Vermeil]

F'ing obnoxious.

 

[El Floppo]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

I hear you.

except these people never would have even lived in NYC 10+ years ago.... it's turned into a giant playground/ temporary home to selfish, thoughtless, heartless, nimrods who aren't here because they have to be here (for whatever reason- usually career related in a obsession way, not a sentenced to prison way... although it was kinda the same) but because their sorority sister moved here and said it was fun.

 

[Mario Kart]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

Yeah, its not just NYC. Sadly, my generation and the one just younger than me are not being very good leaders in showing the younger people how to act, behave, and respect others privacy.

Hey, these ladies wanted to take a selfie and post on FaceBook and other social media sites, well, give them what they want... Internet fame by lambasting them all over the Internet. Taking selfies at that moment is terrible and tactless. Plaster that photo all over the Internet with some meme or caption telling others of their selfishness. People will only learn by being made an example of, so, make one of these D-bags.

 

[Mr. Ected]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

Yeah, its not just NYC. Sadly, my generation and the one just younger than me are not being very good leaders in showing the younger people how to act, behave, and respect others privacy.Hey, these ladies wanted to take a selfie and post on FaceBook and other social media sites, well, give them what they want... Internet fame by lambasting them all over the Internet. Taking selfies at that moment is terrible and tactless. Plaster that photo all over the Internet with some meme or caption telling others of their selfishness. People will only learn by being made an example of, so, make one of these D-bags.

The Smithsonian here in DC has banned selfie sticks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/03/03/smithsonian-bans-use-of-selfie-sticks-in-all-of-its-museums/

 

[MC Gas Money]

I was in union square when this happened.

I saw and smelled nothing.

 

[RUSF18]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

Yeah, its not just NYC. Sadly, my generation and the one just younger than me are not being very good leaders in showing the younger people how to act, behave, and respect others privacy.Hey, these ladies wanted to take a selfie and post on FaceBook and other social media sites, well, give them what they want... Internet fame by lambasting them all over the Internet. Taking selfies at that moment is terrible and tactless. Plaster that photo all over the Internet with some meme or caption telling others of their selfishness. People will only learn by being made an example of, so, make one of these D-bags.

The Post is on it...

http://twitter.com/bustedcoverage/status/582143629348728832/photo/1

 

[El Floppo]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

Yeah, its not just NYC. Sadly, my generation and the one just younger than me are not being very good leaders in showing the younger people how to act, behave, and respect others privacy.Hey, these ladies wanted to take a selfie and post on FaceBook and other social media sites, well, give them what they want... Internet fame by lambasting them all over the Internet. Taking selfies at that moment is terrible and tactless. Plaster that photo all over the Internet with some meme or caption telling others of their selfishness. People will only learn by being made an example of, so, make one of these D-bags.

The Post is on it...

http://twitter.com/bustedcoverage/status/582143629348728832/photo/1

just coming in to post that ...

and as somebody who took a couple photos the night of on my way home- mostly because I was caught by way the firefighters looked silhouetted against the smoke (posted above) and wanted to share with my wife and this thread... I can't imagine the leap to deciding to not only take a picture of myself, but to smile while doing it. I find that increasingly omnipresent leap depressing.

 

[El Floppo]

I was in union square when this happened.

I saw and smelled nothing.

ok? did you take a selfie? I really don't get what point you're trying to make here.

I work at 39th and 5th- not long after the explosion, I could see smoke and smell fire.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I was in union square when this happened.

I saw and smelled nothing.

ok? did you take a selfie? I really don't get what point you're trying to make here.

I work at 39th and 5th- not long after the explosion, I could see smoke and smell fire.

See my posts from that day, same here... Entire office could smell smoke, we're about 6 blocks from Union Square... I was in a taxi afterwards and saw a lot of smoke by Washington Square Park. Must have been a NW wind that day, bc by the time I got to 1st and Bowery I didn't smell much.

Yea, the selfies are awful... I wouldn't mind if someone walked up to someone like this, took their phone, and threw it in the sewer.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I was in union square when this happened.

I saw and smelled nothing.

ok? did you take a selfie? I really don't get what point you're trying to make here.

I work at 39th and 5th- not long after the explosion, I could see smoke and smell fire.

I think they said one 76 and he heard 176.

 

[comfortably numb]

I get taking pictures. It's sort of like recording history from your point of view.

Posing or a selfie is odd to me.

I first started noticing this on 9/11.

I went to see the site the Saturday after 9/11 and while it was a very eerie and somber atmosphere it was extremely odd seeing people pose in front of ground zero, smiling etc.

I could only imagine If sselfis were around in 2001.

 

[massraider]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

I hear you.

except these people never would have even lived in NYC 10+ years ago.... it's turned into a giant playground/ temporary home to selfish, thoughtless, heartless, nimrods who aren't here because they have to be here (for whatever reason- usually career related in a obsession way, not a sentenced to prison way... although it was kinda the same) but because their sorority sister moved here and said it was fun.

Completely agree about the change over the last ten years.

I wasn't living in the city for about 5 years, came back about 18 months ago, and the change is noticeable. You know where I work, I have a front row seat to city Millenials, and I gotta say, the view is terrifying.

It's pure Narcissism. I told a friend that young women in New York behave as if they are celebrities-in-training. Arriving at a restaurant/bar/club, and launching into a series of poses they apparently learned from watching actual celebs (head cocked, lips pouted, shoulder turned, one leg out front). It's amazing. And there's no shame. No embarrassment for making a spectacle of themselves in public. I mean, it's one thing to be in public, and someone asks if they take a picture of you, because you are famous, and quite another to take ten minutes to hold your own impromptu photo shoot standing at a bar, surrounded by strangers that couldn't care less about you.

That selfie at the accident site doesn't surprise me one bit.

 

[urbanhack]

this exemplifies a lot of what's gone wrong in this city over the last 10... even 5 years.

Sad to say this is not limited to NYC

I hear you.except these people never would have even lived in NYC 10+ years ago.... it's turned into a giant playground/ temporary home to selfish, thoughtless, heartless, nimrods who aren't here because they have to be here (for whatever reason- usually career related in a obsession way, not a sentenced to prison way... although it was kinda the same) but because their sorority sister moved here and said it was fun.

F'n millennials

 

[El Floppo]

Just walked by there.

So strange... kinda nice day (brisk) with lots of people out and about in the EVil. Everybody just going around yada-yada-ing, brunching, leading their normal lives... as they should of course. But at the same time, so many lives upended (and lost) in such a devastating way. That's what came back to me today from our own far-less monumental event- all these people walking around giggling and chirping, and my life was in a complete ####-storm. Given the fire after the explosion, I'm sure it's unreasonable for me to keep hoping they find those two missing people alive under there... but I'm still hoping.

2 bodies found. :(

 

[Swing 51]

Damn that sucks but figured the news would be coming. NYT has some interesting articles on the shady work being done on the gas line over the years to supply gas to the apartment next door to the sushi restaurant. The landlord's son and a GC he hired to work on the line opened the door to a utility closet or some similar room right as the explosion occured

 

[Gawain]

Interesting news from the legal meeting from my coworker.

If you're rent-stabilized or rent-controlled, the city guarantees your rent at $1 for 12 months, but if paying market rate, there are no city protections.

Tenants have zero push to force the landlord to act with alacrity to lift the vacate orders and while the vacate orders are in place no personal property can be removed. All tenants doors are padlocked by the city.

No talk of money, though the city created a 250K fund after the Harlem explosion last year.