When Mayor de Blasio gets done trying to produce the recovery of all of us by emceeing performance arts venues in Brooklyn and Lincoln Center, maybe some time can be dedicated for his Housing Preservation and Development and Human Resources Administration to make sure these 400 residents who have had their lives upended from getting disenfranchised from their homes and belongings and make sure the owners of this complex, KEDEX PROPERTIES LLC, renovates and restores these apartments as quickly as possible.
And since there is still not much known about how this inferno started, right at the start of the afternoon no less, let’s be positively certain that when this LLC decides to demolish these actual affordable housing buildings and build some garishly designed tower they better let these residents that got displaced be allowed to return without any conditions. Instead of letting more low income people become gentrification collateral damage.
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DeBlah Zee Ho is like every commie who ever lived. Pretending to champion the little guy while screwing him over. They are all the same.
No $$ for real engineered arson investigations, let alone 30 ignorant illegal immigrants daisy chaining 20 extension cords for 1500 watt electric hotplates & heaters.
Let it light up or let some landlord torch everything, Rezone and flip to build cheap big generic box barracks like in Ukraine.
Slumlords cashing out for number one wile making #2 with city halls blessing.
-Gee
@Gino
I think it might be someone charging a battery for an ebike or one of those makeshift mopeds they are selling by the dozen now in bike shops.
But I was thinking arson too, considering the gentrification creep going on in Jackson and nearby Corona and the lack of news follow ups on recent fires taking down rows of small businesses.
To add:
The people who bought these buildings (usually foreigner's) cant get all the deadbeat tenants and storefronts on cheap leases out. I think the fix is having them professionally rigged to "light up"
Gas lines and electrical do not go haywire on their own less then #7+ earthquake. The electrical code for NYC buildings is steel metal jacketed BX cable that prevents fault currents from reaching ignition sources. Article 320 of the National Electric Code.
I worked hurricane relief in shithole St.Croix after hurricaine Hugo. Those people and islands own electricians were deliberately leaching salt water from milk containers on the fuse & breaker boxes. In that case it was usually closed milk containers of salt water from the beach with pin holes sitting atop the breaker panels or on chairs aside AC outlets.
This to get the Bakelite and plastic insulating materials, AC outlets, breakers to conduct, glow red and cause fires for insurance or FEMA relief cash.
"Oh the ceiling leaked on my breaker box now I want a new house"
I know rigging can be done and it is OFTEN done, these stupid people the city hired are too stupid (or not allowed to) to do the proper forensics spot engineered fires and the landlords now know that.
Expect a tsunami of fires.
Anybody remember the old fashioned 1 gallon glass jug steam blasting vaporizers as kids that used salt & water that would dim the light & blow the fuse if you used too much salt?
Same principal.
(This has been posted for needed safety and educational purposes because the mayor, city and DOE are too stupid)
-Gee
At JQ LLC
Charging a battery for an ebike could be very possible.
Many of those use lithium ion battery's that will burn like blocks of magnesium gunpowder when compromised..but that's usually in bad accidents. This comes to the chargers and one problem with that theory: lithium ion, NImh or sealed lead acid gel rechargeable (SLA) charging. I yet to see even a 12-24 volt scooter quick rapid rate charger needing more then 5 amps from a 120AC wall outlet. You would need maybe 5 chargers active at once (and maybe a toaster too) to get over 20 amps of hear needed to "light" the cheapest extension cord. And that's if it didn't pop the usual 15-20 amp breaker first.
-Gee
@Gino
Even then is not really possible. Most of the e-bike batteries are smart batteries,chargers and have chips in them.
Couple of things - older buildings, the insulation on the wirings are mostly gone, turned into dust or worse.
Fuses and wires are important.
Many people think is OK to replace a 15-amp fuse with a 20-amp fuse if it blows frequently.
That's why insurance companies are demanding landlords to use Type S aka Tamper-proof fuses and adapters in old buildings with no circuit breakers.
At JQ LLC.
I just saw a pharmacy close up with a large gas motorcycle inside, Island Pharmacy at 290 City Island Ave.
I sure this is going on in residential as well.
Looking at the violations you can see how a solid building opened for a solidly middle-class community in a Planned Community has taken a nosedive in the last 30 years with large apartments converted into 'minifavelas' that either vote 'right' or better do not vote at all.
Look at Phipps, the Met Life projects, etc.
So with that in mind, there is no problem here as the community 'evolves' from 1st world to 3rd world.
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