No one “wants” to. No less than 80% of new builds are done just that way though it’s not a new practice either.

The developers and contractors cut corners because they don't just want to make a good profit. They want to make millions. They'll find an engineer who will swear that a shortcut is perfectly safe and they'll do it. I wouldn't be so sure that chemically treating the soil to make it strong enough to support the building is a long-term fix.

​​@@Realwaltersobchakyou're saying 80% of buildings are done the way that they did this tower? It just didn't work out because the Tower is so tall or whatever? To me, it seems like if there's any question, you look at the more expensive option as disaster insurance. How much worse can the cost be to do it right, when compared to the overall cost of such a huge project, and the ruinous expenss if you have to redo it or tear it down?

​@@creedolala6918rich people usually get rich by being cheap bastards in every form of business

@@creedolala6918 every contractor wants to save money and use cheaper materials.

I don't like thinking about this

That's like, 8 years from now, right?

This is so real 😭

WHERE TIME HAS GONE

Covid took away a few years of life experience.

at the same time, the customer should understand good work isn't cheap. if they accept the lowest bid, its equally on them. i do high voltage work at an Intel plant, and even the "reputable" union companies cheap out, break protocol, and are a year behind schedule like everyone else. from my limited 23 years of life, only difference i've seen between good and bad companies on a site are pay and how good your benefits are. yall still fuckin over the laborers, while yall put on a hard hat after sitting in your office, actin like youre hands aren't clean when you go home (maybe not you specifically depending on your position). idgaf what anyone says, PMs should not be making more than fools with 10+ years of experience still in the field.

In your opinion, would a leaning building be safe during hurricanes?

@@nanky432 leaning tower of pisa seems to be doing just fine 😂 its been through goddamn earthquakes

NYC is on the path to be detriotize as crime, illegals & homeless soar, meanwhile big corps heading for the exits.

If you think the guys that know what they're doing are expensive just wait until you see how much it's going to cost using one's that aren't.

I'm genuinely impressed by the graffiti

That’s a rappel job - very popular style in nyc

I would've been impressed if it was a banksy.

@@whispersoftheafterlife1017 thats better than anything banksy did or will ever do.

It's only leaning by a tiny amount, a few inches at the top iirc

I agree. Someone will eventually come along to pay for the land and demo of the building.

@@johngavin3109 Hopefully not the NYC (or New York state) taxpayer though!

Plus its cursed.

They ll finish it and fill it with migrants

there is one in San Francisco that sold...there are foundation fixes that can be done...The Millennium Tower lean has been stabilized..but still issues

I get to learn more because he uploaded it.

Its so autistic to refer to a channel by the name of the guy.

@@mkhanman12345 I knew SF had a leaning tower but I didn't know that NYC had one as well !

Maybe it wasn't the wind, maybe there are ghosts!

Buildings are designed to sway a little.

These days most of them have counter weights built in the top floor that keep them from swaying like that. Of course, this one was apparently not built like "most buildings."

@@karlwithak.Yes, but the fine buildings of the 1920s tend to be super well-built and built way over-code, so the 70 Pine St beauty, one of the finest old buildings in NYC, can probably be made to last another 100 or even much more with the proper care. After all, Europe is stuffed with buildings that are as old as 700 years and built with hand tools, that are standing as strong as they did when built. That said, cities like NYC and Chicago already have quite enough super-tall buildings and don't need any more. Supertall buildings are much more complex and demanding to design, build, and maintain than buildings 20 stories or less, requiring much more expertise in their design and construction, and many more and better-trained personnel to operate and maintain. There are relatively few people in any society who can carry the costs these buildings have, which is why high-rise low-income housing projects are such failures and quickly become unsanitary and unsafe. We probably should not build any more supertalls because they tend to become white elephants as they age, especially in cities with less wealth than NYC.

@@chicagonorthcoast 'Europe is stuffed with buildings that are as old as 700 years and built with hand tools, that are standing as strong as they did when built. ' name one super tall, 700-year-old skyscraping tower in europe. right. there aren't any. so are you comparing apples with oranges?

I wonder how no one saw the graffiti artist at work. That's not exactly a private piece of wall.

no one in that shithole looks up@@Bobrogers99

There is similar tagging in tall buildings and bridges all around the city. You're correct in assuming there's some rappelling involved, but certainly not one with carbines and safety lines lol

Seriously, that graffiti-artist deserves their own video!

A drone! That’s actually a good guess I think. It’s probably more likely than repelling, someone on an upper floor in one of the buildings near by would definitely notice a person hanging off the building, but probably not a drone.

late-stage capitalism aka unfettered greed and impatience for returns

…it’s the cash on the front end ya know (then disappears)

Construction is one of the easiest way to launder money.

Yes you can only wonder about that and still great video of Jake considering the bad news lately and other creators going away.

Union's! And organized crime.

Just looked it up, it was beautiful

Sad to hear of yet another wonderful old NYC building being demolished so that a "higher use" i.e. a ginormously over-scaled & over-priced glass tower, can be built.

@@karlwithak. it overlooked the seaport, one of the oldest parts of the city, and a beautiful spot. hell even the Bronx River has been cleaned up. It's not the nasty place people remember from the 70s and i'm kind of tired of people thinking it is

not you starting beef in the comments section bro!!! huge L @@karlwithak.

"no a sentence" as the grown man cries about the youth's vernacular. this is super weird for you to get upset about bro@@karlwithak.

And some fake buildings.

​@@REXXSEVEN_II fake buildings? what's that?

😂😂😂 mention since you are in iran

@@Heyu7her3well for one, quite a few* buildings are just vent stations for the subway.

I wonder how many abandoned buildings?

I live in Edmonton too. Which tower are you referring? I find abandoned buildings fascinating.

@@Jeffmorgan83 Enbridge Tower on Jasper Ave. They've been turning it into a hotel since 2018 with little progress. I think there are a couple of businesses in it now, but most are 1 man call centres

@@OuterSpawn Oh that's right!

Strong Financials... Flip to condos.

It makes sense bc when you were younger time was slower since you barely existed compared to adults

I legit thought you were pointing this out as an error made lol

When you are younger not only do you have less responsibilities (usually) but you also have less memories to look back on from experiences. The more you can slightly look back with memories or feelings of the time the further away you discover it was and the feeling of time passing away becomes more noticeable. It's a painful and sad reality but I hope it makes grateful for the some good people in life now whom we might not have later.

3 years from 2018 is hardly a decade...

​@@NatureXwars He's talking about when construction first started in 2015.

I wonder if they are twerking on a buttress? 😉

And FUGLY

So true I imagine for anything like that the footer would have to be 100-200 ft deep to where you positivity Confirm your all the down to bedrock and do drilling samples to confirm

Yes if you go with the lowest bidder, I can almost guarantee you corners will be cut ,and it will be way,way more in the long run to correct

Little 'margin for error' !

St Louis also does, and is in the middle

The perfect balance

It is, though what’s even stranger to me is that next to nobody in NYC has heard of 1 Seaport. It’s certainly news to me.

​@damnjustassignmeone Don't count on any honest reporting from the msm. Unless it's negative and dishonest President Trump news. The tagging was impressive...lol

​@damnjustassignmeone ​Don't count on any honest reporting from the msm. Unless it's negative and dishonest President Trump news. The tagging was impressive...lol

⁠It has increased. Look it up.

yes, illegal emigrants.@@stopmakingsense9915

It's sick that this glass monstrosity was approved in that tiny narrow space so close to historic structures. NYC is just as to blame as the developers for this ridiculous overbuilding and destruction of open space and sunlight. Hope it sits there and rots for years and they have to choke on the taxes.

Yes he really is amazing given now with the issues of UKposts and a lot of content creators quitting these days along with other bad news about UKposts now but somehow it really surprised me this creator got going thought he was dead or had gotten kicked out really not as clear cut as I thought and really my mind isn't always okay I can admit.

Or insanity !

@@linmal2242 Yes, haha...pretty insane for sure.

Yes it really is and these days way uncertain along with a lot of UKposts creators quitting but somehow he got through.

The building wouldn't have been a risk to human life. This has been abandoned because the development company and their primary construction contractor had a massive falling-out, got into legal squabbles, froze progress, and everyone else pulled out.

The Chicago Spire does not count as such a project as not a single piece of it got built to begin with. The hole for the foundation was dug but the market turned and the financing fell through just as construction was about to begin. It was our banking system that was tottering at that time, not the non-existent building. The hole is still there. I haven't heard what will be done with it one way or the other for a decade.

It's a downward spire full of water with a luxury chainlink fence around it. After one person drowned in it, they decided that the fence would deter people. I always wonder if and/or how many bodies have been disappeared in there.

Chicago Spire has never been more than a hole in the ground. The banking crisis dried up all the easy credit.

@@VinceP1974 , How I remember how disappointed we were when that project was canceled. I've stared at that hole a lot since.

That is a great question

Slowly

Easy it’s just deconstructed just like how they deconstructed 270 park avenue.

I wonder if it will be a lot more difficult, though, considering how slender the tower is

@@BrightSunFilms Unlikely from my understanding of how deconstruction works it is pretty much construction done backwards.

Yes it's been tough these years along with so many creators going away or quitting now.

Is it true every high school in Corpus has a maternity ward?

@@eradicator187 And an abortion clinic where you should have been.

That bridge collapse in Florida was criminal!

Agreed. I typically wind up at South Street Seaport once every couple of years and it is kind of odd. You still have the markets.. they’ve just moved up a couple of blocks. ESPN built that entire studio complex on the end of an adjacent pier.. yet it’s empty on weekends. There’s that little wedge park. I liked South Street Seaport before it went upscale… the museum area is an upscale shopping mall. I was shocked to see a Capital Grille there. Who’s renting/buying these properties post-pandemic where the Street has arguably at least 50% less employees showing up everyday?

And they’re ugly.

Yeah… I know

The lost years of COVID…

That sounds really intriguing and I’ve never heard of it

ohh yeah alot of stuff abandoned and falling apart in china. but getting videos and pictures is hard in a communist dictatorship

Its so autistic to refer to a channel by the name of the guy when you don't know them personally. Do you really think you are friends with the dude?

There are entire cities that are almost entirely if not entirely abandoned in China, not to mention individual buildings. The great urbanization project has not been nearly as successful as the government needed, and now that China's population is shrinking (a shrinking which will accelerate) it's stuck with a lot of dead space.

Same! I hope the video does well.

Thank you so much!

Couch* All good, auto-incorrect is a pain sometimes

@@RavenFilms indeed it is. Although I remember one of my PE coaches being hot so, lol

Thanks so much! It’ll come one day, I promise

they are definately a fire hazard....floor 3 is as high as your should be...in fires its 1 breath of smoke which kills, not heat and flame!!

They are needed for recycling drug money.

That is called 'common sense' friend

Rarely do windows open. It's all 'ventilated' air.

Your bathroom is literally a much bigger hazard, or driving on snowy roads.

Skynet lsitens and provides!

Thanks for watching!

Glad to be back!

Who are "proper People?"

The Proper People are a UKposts channel that does abandoned building exploration

Thanks!

Happy to see YOU back :)

Earth quakes!!!

@@joelthames1141 New York doesn't have big earthquakes, which means this really isn't a problem there

@@elvastanKeep telling yourself that - earthquakes can occur anyplace on earth!!!

@@joelthames1141 I actually looked it up and there's a fault system about 25 miles (40km) to the west of New York, that may even go right under it. It's called the Ramapo Fault

@@joelthames1141 I looked it up and there actually is a fault line near New York, the Ramapo Fault. It isn't especially active but has the capability to produce a Magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake

@karlwithak. Looking down on a pile of garbage? Those apts have (had) views of the Seaport and Brooklyn Heights, very beautiful views.

they dont care.....FREEMASON and insurance scam

Speculators don't care- they figure that they'll sell the units and be gone before the first shovel hits the dirt. All the bad buildings built in the past 40 years are bad because our financial establishment and our monetary policies i.e. interest rate repression forever, drive short-term speculation at the expense of long-term investment. Crap is built to last a depreciation schedule at best, and city officials are so eager for "growth" at any cost, that they let a lot slide in the approval process.

Have you hit the building in DTLA?

Time for y'all to catch a flight to NYC. Tag em all 😂

I would love a video on this!

That’s so cool!

It's not even high-quality graffiti, and all the criminal vandal(s) did was rappel over the side. That's common in the twin trash heaps of NYC and LA.

Thank you so much!

It's common in NYC, because the city is trash and trash people create low-quality graffiti.

But how did they get it up there?@@Objectified