NYC Buildings are Collapsing… Why?

[@rrc3]

I know there are going to be a lot of theories on this but let me make this relatively less confusing for people who are not subject matter experts on concrete. Concrete, in ideal circumstances, absent modern (or ancient) additives, lasts between 70 and 120 years. The majority of NYC concrete was laid down...between 70 and 120 years ago. Hope this helps!

[@tigerstallion]

and with rebar rusting, itll never last more than 120 or so years. theyre all coming down (stop putting rebar in concrete. Roman concrete (and other types) last much longer)

[@Felale]

Meanwhile europe doesn't seem to have these issues. Makes you think.

[@alanway5]

@@Felale socialism works in europe, countries like norway are a clear example

[@jhostintola3092]

One world trade center's core is concrete will it crumble in 100 years?

[@t.n.9720]

Thanx

[@CaseyAvalon]

I remember watching a documentary more than 15 years ago that talked about how we were 50+ years overdue on repairing our buildings and infrastructure.

[@baassik8419]

I remember when, in the 90's, buidlings were crumbling and falling to the ground. People on their way to work were injured or worse. Some of the codes we have now came from then.

[@heromiIes]

Guess that means it's 65+ years overdue now.

[@ncard00]

Cause US infrastructure is so bad and old, just look at the trains for instance, slow, old, and tons of delays, which means extreme congestion at airports and on roads.

[@UhtredOfBamburgh]

@@ncard00 Some places in the US have impressive infrastructure, but I agree in big old city centres this is not true

[@projectnerdvana2820]

Lol

[@TrunkyDunks]

Im a building and welding inspector. I remember we were hearing about this a decade ago when i was in school. Its just poor management, lack of maintenance, high cost of repair and lack of incentive. Its very scary and SUPER dangerous.

[@benjohnson7950]

What about structural reinforcement? There's construction companies wrapping walls and floors with epoxy and polycarbonate sheets. Ever hear of this? It's like wrapping a doll house with duct tape.

[@TrunkyDunks]

@@benjohnson7950 I agree. Its basically just a bandaid. There is no substitute for doing it right in the first place

[@ML-dk7bf]

Also the NY city bureaucracy makes permitting an agonizing long process, so repairs often don't get done.

[@Carmen-dd4lb]

​​@@benjohnson7950😳😳

[@lindaostrom570]

city hall is not your friend.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I lived in an apartment that was built in 1892. Very heavy objects like waterbeds were prohibited. When the train passed beneath, the building shook.

[@katiegrundle9900]

i live in a 1960s building downtown hamilton, ontario. theres a railway tunnel under my building. sometimes i can feel vibrations and in 16 floors up.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

@@katiegrundle9900 the bigger post 1950s buildings are built to sway especially a 16 story highrise

[@Patricia-kh3bg]

That’s scary 🫣 I wouldn’t be able to sleep!

[@lizetteperez1336]

What are the people doing from the building and zoning department it is the city's building department to follow up with building structures deterioration years and inspections all this falls into the New York City state of the building manager's office that are supposed to be inspecting this buildings on a daily basis around the whole state of New York as long as the owners don't hear from the building permit zoning department they're not going to do nothing until it collapsed just like it's happening now it comes from the top for the building department to start issuing violations as you mentioned some of them has more than 10 15 20 violations for 10-15 years and nothing's been done that's from the building department that's why that's happening

[@marial8235]

Historically, Manhattan had swampy areas. Although they were drained in the 18th and 19th centuries, I would suspect those methods might not be permanent. Also, the expansive tunneling throughout the island cannot be doing great things for building foundations. Plus at one time brick foundations were common and do can deteriorate over time, especially with moisture ingress. Also, the age of some of these structures is already exceeding their expected life span. Quite a Devil’s brew I’d say.

[@michael.cschrubbe5879]

LMAO! Well said!

[@shanegagnon3423]

Its a democrat run city ... What do you expect ? They never do shit.

[@petersmith2040]

It’s just part of America’s crumbling infrastructure and the overall decline of the country.

[@dlewis9760]

Check out the hand drawn maps of Boston from the 16 + 1700s. Most of today's Boston didn't exist. It's all fill. Do a google maps search of Incheon South Korea. Look at the airport. The squares next to it are golf courses. South east of it across the bay is a square. It is a golf course built on man made land. Building into water or swamps has been done forever and is still being done.

[@ChrisWijtmans]

that metro was right under the building. Also i think the city did it on purpose to get rid of some small old buildings.

[@ladyjustice1474]

This happens when you cut cost on building materials, and bribe state officials to look the other way on unsafe construction. I live in apartment building that's less than 10yŕs old, the foundation is cracked and not up to code. The tenants here don't keep silent when they see code violations they report and keep reporting it until it's brought up to code.

[@sarafstop32]

Welcome to New York! I used to live there, and I can tell you this corruption has been going on for decades.

[@isartoraplatz]

It’s everywhere I’ve never Seen so much corruption and I’m on the West Coast….from Politicians to public officials to city workers …. It’s an infestation of rats 😂

[@youtubescholar]

Can you withhold rent for stuff like that? I know in California there are certain things that you can not pay rent for

[@michaelwebster6219]

The USA is just poor at building anything home of today are shocking and wood ppl building them out if brick you want it to last not use chip bord and wood hahaha us bits do lol my local town is twice the age if tge usa

[@oliveraparicio8464]

​@michaelwebster6219 Geography and Topography is quite different than Europe. I'm from New Mexico between the desert heat and brutal sandstorm anything built from your british town will be turned into rubble. You'll spend 8-9 months rebuilding your home for mother natural to turn it into rubble the same time next year.

[@BePlushed]

It's not "impossible" to do regular safety inspections on every single public building in NYC. It's just not cost effective. All you need to do is set up a schedule, have a list of every building that needs inspections, and hire enough people to make sure inspections are done every year or however often they deem it necessary. But again, money. It's cheaper to not care. 🙃

[@michaelwebster6219]

It was told many times it had to fix stuff it just ignored them watch the whole video it tells u it had like 80 violations and 500 complaints they knew but did sod all

[@sam-mp9fz]

Pay offs mto look the other way, people are not important. Profit over people, just like everything else going on.@@michaelwebster6219

[@BePlushed]

that's when you shut down the business. if a restaurant has been reported for multiple violations, the people that control those things will shut the restaurant down. Continuing operating the business without an inspection to make sure all things are good would be illegal. If it can be done for a restaurant with rats or a warm fridge, it can be done for exposed rebar and leaking pipes. @@michaelwebster6219

[@donniemoder1466]

@@michaelwebster6219 Yes, that is often the case, violations can remain outstanding (not closed) for years. I don't know why there isn't higher penalties for this kind of behavior.

[@alaysiakayebutler6299]

The money.. how much has been diverted or wasted, that could be used to pay for inspections, twice

[@lv21987]

You need to be on local TV .... but the problem with that is they would tell you what you can and can't report about. Your videos are awesome!

[@marylivingstone9815]

He hasn’t reported on one thing that hasn’t been covered on our local news shows. WPIX 11 in particular does a lot of muckraking reporting.

[@ja-uh9gz]

That's true. Cash can tell it all, without management censoring his reporting. He does a great job!

[@Elena-er7zp]

he is literally using newspapers and tv news to tell his stories.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

On December 11, 2023 -- 4 days after this video was posted -- an apartment building in the Bronx partially collapsed.

[@DawnykaH]

Loving these current events/journalism videos you/ve done lately. Still love the apartment tours too, but these give more insight into what living in NYC is really like. Thanks Cash!

[@DesperateForSanity]

You're rapidly morphing into a consumer-cultural affairs reporter with a very informative real estate slant. Well done.

[@mircat28]

He has to! The real estate business for what he does is tanking and he has mouths to feed and keep a roof over their heads

[@MadScientist267]

Complete with using a phone to play other reporters stories. Great indeed. 🙄

[@sfdko3291]

It's the right wing turn.

[@EmilyFoxSeaton]

I agree. Most of his stuff now is better than actual reporters.

[@tomjpurchase]

@@MadScientist267, does Cash need an agreement with CBS2 for sharing their videos?

[@hammersampson]

Usually, when buildings collapse it’s because the foundation is crumbling. The concrete foundation likely was worn down by recent flooding. Water damage is bad for any kind of structure.

[@xblade11230]

Not in NYC , in NYC 200 year old buildings are still the majority of the buildings because of sticky tenants and onerous bureaucracy The only way to actually build a new building in NYC is to wait for the building to collapse on its own or to sabotage it. Tenants will have no choice but to leave, and the city will give them their permits to build a new building immediately

[@kennethpogue718]

Great point!

[@ceu160193]

Don't they build waterproof foundations?

[@unknownsender6852]

@@ceu160193 The foundations of these buildings is an entire topic of study in itself.... Mudfloods, Tartaria

[@AD-br3sx]

Water permeates everything given enough time

[@wolverine89893]

They have the same thing happening in Florida, with those expensive sea front condos. Where one collapsed that was old, now all of them get inspected, and if they violate the code they get shutdown until it is fixed.

[@xoox7469]

That is crazy. To get screwed up. Where you live. I lived in Florida for winter,16 years. All the old condo buildings are at all high risks being, cost to fix them. Or demlished😮. Ocean beach condos All over are falling apart. All it Will take is a crack fountain out, n the weight above means bad news.

[@Lazy2332]

And what’s absolutely insane is that we already had what was apparently considered ”exceptional” inspection and re-certification standards. Apparently every 40 years was considered exceptional. Now it’s being lowered. Honestly, it should have been lower to begin with & regular inspections by the local building departments should have been more thorough and regularly done. It’s still not enough. It’s terrifying to see these huge condo buildings being evacuated in tropical storm Nicole for example.

[@Lazy2332]

@@xoox7469 I feel like Florida is full of too many retirees and money to allow anything to that scale to happen, but the scale is still pretty alarming and unacceptable imo.

[@kharihayden7833]

Crazy, there was just a partial building collapse today, December 11, 2023 in the Bronx… 4 days after you posted this.

[@ammi7437]

i’ve been to nyc multiple times and when that garage collapsed in april, my friends and i were supposed to stay at a hotel VERY close by a couple weeks after. and they emailed us about how they had to close the building bc of it and that we had to find new accommodations. it’s very scary to think about how that hotel wasn’t structurally sound either and it could’ve happened to any other building on that street too!

[@xxFreakifyxx]

A couple days ago I joined the first annual meeting of my co-op since I moved in and I found out that my building’s roof is literally collapsed and I had no idea. The zoom meeting got so heated I was just muted with the camera off lurking the whole time. I feel so bad for my neighbors that have to deal with a collapsed ceiling and fans blowing 24/7 to dry out the moisture. They indicated that a common cause for all these collapses is the unprecedented levels of rain we have been getting, as well as past management not doing their job

[@deeday09]

But, but, but global wArming

[@peppermeat8059]

remember that the concrete in nyc is also dying, their over 70 years old

[@lindaostrom570]

lack of maintenance is the culprit.

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Surfside must be terrifying to you.

[@tspaulding3845]

That's called PAY OFFS. Whoever owns the property was paying off the inspectors. No way was this being inspected and passed.

[@xblade11230]

It's all planned, go check out some affordable apartments for rent in NYC , they are all in 200 year old rotting buildings Rich people are not living in these old buildings The goal is to let the building collapse, forcing poor tenants to leave, then replacing it with a new building and noveau riche tenants The building inspectors and the govt agencies that do inspections are all in on the plan

[@nothanks8223]

Facts. Crooks.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Inspectors?! We don't need no stinking inspectors !

[@azert52b39]

Bribery

[@toiletpaper7864]

More common than people think

[@anyonecanart3394]

NYC has been building on top of building on top of building on top of building for like 400 years lol. It's no surprise that this kind of thing is happening. All the subterranean excavation projects going on and the vibrations from traffic, heavy machinery and subways . Crazy shit, imagine paying like 4k a month for a studio apartment and have it fall into the earth. Couple more collapses and insurance won't cover anything just like earthquakes in CA and hurricanes in FL . Great videos to I love your work keep it up.

[@daviano_R.T.]

Agreed, they are many old city having way more older buildings (example : London, Zurich, etc.) but they doesn't have massive problem like on the New York city, I think the government doesn't want to keep in check of the development of their city and many violation were breaches without the local government knows. The reason why you have city government and many of their subordinate is to prevent something like this to happen in the first place, is kinda shocking to think that they didn't know all of that until now.

[@seadragon1456]

US citizens can thank the allowance of lobbing and big buck bribes for this mess. Reps look the other way and take the coins then they act like they knew NOTHING.

[@Betty-ub1jc]

A building collapse IS covered by insurance. I live part-time in Bal Harbour, Florida. If hurricanes weren't covered under Insurance in florida, nobody would live there! So I don't really know what you're getting your information?

[@bobsteve4812]

Plenty of cities in the world that are much older that don’t have this problem. The issue is the cheap building materials and inherent issues rebar concrete parking garages

[@ceu160193]

@@bobsteve4812 Rebar concrete is fine, assuming it was done correctly. Problem seem to be with foundations, as recent flooding definitely weakened many foundations, but those weren't reinforced afterwards.

[@Scottee08]

This video posted 5 days ago and then an apartment building in the Bronx collapses. Jordan is doing good work exposing the truth out here.

[@michaelhernandez4329]

Watching this four days after a partial apartment collapse in the Bronx really implicates this growing problem.

[@romeonjuliett]

I lived in that home

[@cerscil]

I work in a parking garage, NOT in NYC, as low level management i am in charge of property inspection reports that i send to upper management. They/he just doesnt read them or fix anything because it will interfere with his bonus. The property owner that contracts us has no idea what goes on. They have new auditors since the covid shut down and are more worried about why a $5 parking ticket was validated than the fact that there is exposed rebarb. Most parking companies do not own the properties so they dont report the big stuff.

[@mohammedalgheryafi7784]

Sad 🥲

[@smokingbeetles5793]

Thank you. This was insightful and a big safety concern.

[@durece100]

What do you mean "I work in a parking garage, NOT in NYC..."? Which location do you work in a garage?

[@annem7806]

Take pics, send to local TV stations. The life you save may be your own. Could be a whistle-blower $ituation, if that is the encouragement you need. Do the right thing, please.❤

[@frankpohl4377]

I also was a FM in modern office buildings and malls in Germany. You are right. The FM controll management is another comp. THERE manager gets a bonus when they manipulate the papers or saff money for repair. Evil is there when the owner is Black Kock or Black Bone. They are not interesting in safty they looking for dollars. I found a way to call the police and the press 🙂But for real the west is in the last hours of the existing. More crimminal acts then ever no morality no love. endtime...gried.

[@stevem4011]

Wow! I actually work for a contracting company doing parking garage work across NYC. A large part of the construction you're seeing in NYC is because of Local Law 126, which requires inspections inside private garages around all of NYC. It's currently cycled in Manhattan, and phasing next into Brooklyn. The issue is because these properties are on private property, garages haven't been looked into as much as outside areas where there's always public access. Many corrupt owners would just keep paying the fines since reconstruction of an entire garage can become very expensive. Another issue is once you begin the proper construction, any drilling will cause deteriorating concrete to just crumble or crack worse, which is what I would guess happened with the W51 Street garage if an engineer was involved already. If it weren't for the Department of Buildings finally cracking down on this stuff, there'd be a catastrophic situation with buildings collapsing at any notice.

[@Pandemonioxo]

Honestly fines need to be higher than the cost of renovation otherwise it serves no purpose but a tiny slap on the wrist in exchange for danger

[@Emmy-J]

This is what happens when you don't maintain the infrastructure. It was more important to keep the money instead. I'm guessing there were payoffs involved to look the other way. This is what this country has become and now its time to pay the piper. Now they can tear these places down and build affordable housing.

[@therealjaystone2344]

The pipes all over the US was the first sign wasn’t being inspected

[@hazegrayprepper4396]

And I thought the US Navy was bad with the material readiness of their warships... this is atrocious!

[@tomjpurchase]

Your timing is impeccable! You show a video on collapsing buildings and on Monday part of an apartment in the Bronx collapses.

[@jonathanf2392]

What an eerie coincidence of this video being uploaded days before a massive apartment building collapse at the Bronx!!!!!!!!

[@bcatbb2896]

im really enjoying these new types of videos instead of the apartment showcases.

[@frankcastle6745]

Thank you for helping to bring to light the lack of upkeep and accountability. Great work. Thank you again 👏

[@BajatheChickenMan]

The other thing to note that rarely gets discussed; NYC is still a coastal city. There is still the salt in the air to contend with.

[@joeycmore]

Venice, Constantinople, Boston, Vancouver, and many more are also large coastal cities. Many with architecture dating back farther than anything in NY. All of these have suffered a tragedy occasionally, thevepudemic in NY points to poor oversight, lackadaisical enforcement and a culture of corruption.

[@dlewis9760]

@@joeycmore In Taiwan, starting in the 1960s they started using a lot of rebar in reinforced concrete. Maybe 80% of the population lives on the west side of the island within 20 miles of ocean. That was the Chaing Kai Shek days. While I'm not blaming fast and loose on CKS, back then it was kind of a military dictatorship and essentially and what the government wanted, the government got. They have a huge issue with that concrete probably until the early 90s. Coincidentally around the time the country really became free. The rebar is a big problem whereever salt is present. Like in the winter on bridges.

[@joeycmore]

@dlewis9760 my understanding is rebar in concrete is only affected by salt after a crack has opened. In other words, the concrete has a problem before spalling shows up. I am pretty sure anywhere that suffers real winter has salt problems because of the use on the roads in winter. Once problems are visible, it's not uncommon to sandblast rust from rebar or replace critical damaged rebar sections. So, with so many large metropolitan areas subject to this corrosion, it's incumbent on NY City administration to combat. After-all, they're the ones giving the permissions to build in the first place.

[@leynicesromero4918]

This is crazy I’m watching this the same day that apartment building in the Bronx collapsed

[@MrThelovechannel]

I am constantly amazed by the complexities of NYC and I only know thanks to you! Please keep doing what you do. I love your content.

[@Gizathecat2]

Why can’t NYC take care of itself? I visited Germany in 2019 and people live in houses older than NYC! Not all of Germany was pulverized during WW2, so I’m talking about structures that have survived the centuries. I visited two old churches built in the 800sAD. I visited my ancestral home built in the late 1600s. It’s been modernized on the inside, but still looks the way it did in the late nineteenth century!

[@subcitizen2012]

Stone masonry to anything else is apples an oranges. It's rare, but they have problems too, stone buildings aren't immune. The economy doesn't exactly have the time or money or space to build everything out of stone. And they need to be inspected and maintained too.

[@MissCane9]

@@subcitizen2012 The OP didn't say those buildings never needed repairs. He said that ancient structures had been maintained and modernized on the inside. Therefore, the question remains. Why can't NYC take care of itself?

[@t0rnt0pieces]

@@MissCane9 Because with rent stabilization laws there is no incentive for owners to maintain their properties; furthermore due to all these ancient buildings being landmarked (thanks to NIMBYs) nothing new can be built.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

@@t0rnt0pieces plenty “new” is being built. And thank goodness for landmarked buildings

[@t0rnt0pieces]

@@arribaficationwineho32 Landmarked buildings are welfare for millionaires.

[@tastx3142]

I don’t find it uncommon for people who walk by or even over deteriorating structures. My husband walked over a rotted section with gaping holes of the 3 foot wide wooden deck walkway that was the only access to the front door that he had to use at least twice a day. I finally insisted that it be fixed before someone fell through and he didn’t know what I was talking about. Some people are self absorbed, don’t care about their environment, don’t pay attention to detail or feel responsibility lies with someone else.

[@jond.2868]

Are you still married?

[@sergiosaunier]

Good question haha!

[@patriciafuchs5970]

Good grief! This is scary! It’s amazing how many violations that garage has. Parking garage collapses??? It’s like a dominoes effect, one collapses is the next one safe??? Within two blocks stay home??? Wow. Gas explosions happen everywhere that gas is used. Terrifying. Electrical fires are concerning. Good that you can get a building’s history.

[@antoniodean9171]

It's crazy this came out just a few days before the partial building collapse

[@TBell-vb4nw]

Add to your list the building that collapsed today in the Bronx. Geesh!

[@carbo2950]

Left in 86. Still can remember subway smell and plastic shopping bags melting in july on the trains heating grills. Greed is making 3 apartments out of a one bedroom unit.

[@tar2927]

I left in 86 too....saw the handwriting on the subway wall.....Get the hell out of NYC now.!!

[@silverhammer7779]

Which Cash and company then try to rent out at grossly inflated rates.

[@MayWhite-bz7xl]

NYC is so old and congested I couldn't live there, there's no telling what's going on under ground something like sink holes and old under ground rusty pipes that just cave in.

[@bobsteve4812]

You do realize throughout the world there are countless cities that are much older that don’t have these problems?

[@waterwitch8902]

Too many people lining their pockets while the city crumbles.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

The sky may not be falling but if a skyscraper falls on your head you're just as dead.

[@jaimeisreal]

Appreciate your transparency on what's really going on here in NYC @Cash Jordan. There are NYC live-streamers that leave this stuff out in their live-streams (on purpose). I mentioned these issues in their live-streams but I simply get ignored.

[@dennism7813]

I've often wondered about reinforces concrete since the Rebar they use inside it is usually quite rusty before they even start. And as rust never goes away on it's own, and they don't treat it before pouring the concrete, isn't it only a matter of time before the structure fails? I have often seen rust bleeding out of concrete in usually from large joints or even cracks that perhaps didn't ought to be there in fairly modern bridges etc. It doesn't instil confidence when you're passing underneath. I wonder how many modern structures are dangerously close to collapse?

[@Lazy2332]

If I collected and retained the information properly, no, not entirely. However If rust is leaking out of cracked concrete, that is generally not a good sign at all & I would report it. There’s plenty of very interesting information on this type of stuff on the KZbin channel “Building Integrity” he has done so much coverage of the Surfside condo collapse and talks about all of the ins and out of what went wrong and everything like that.

[@CraigGorsuch]

When everybody thinks the problem is somebody else’s responsibility, nobody does the work that anybody with authority should do.

[@timgerk3262]

When everything is owned by five funds in Connecticut, there is no -authority- responsibility. Back to work, peasant.

[@2F098]

... What?

[@velshock]

A 20 year old structural violation reeks of corruption.

[@TimTams_64]

its nyc what do you expect?

[@Mialamorena1]

A 20 year old violation reeks of not enough people and not enough muscle in the "enforcement" side of the issue.

[@Mialamorena1]

You cannot tell me you think NYC is the ONLY city with corruption. @@TimTams_64

[@hippiebits2071]

​@@TimTams_64Hardly a problem exclusive to NYC.

[@TimTams_64]

@@hippiebits2071 No but NYC is famous for it

[@zerowhite2286]

Top notch investigative journalism. It’s great that you are using your platform to highlight these problems. Here in the U.K. residents tried to raise their concerns about Grenfell Tower many times, but the Council In London failed to respond. There was an horrendous fire, and more than 70 people died. Now many buildings are being checked for defective cladding. There is also a major problem with RAAC concrete just emerging, many public buildings went up using this lighter and cheaper material - and now they are crumbling. So we all have to be on the alert for these defective materials, or the result will be more tragedies. Thanks for doing your part!

[@AshCupric]

The Council has blood on their hands! What a terrible (and avoidable) tragedy. RIP to those who died.

[@zAlaska]

We've improved building them with steel and foam, a residential building I witnessed being built, a steel structure and thick insulating foam making the outside walls, don't hang any shelving, mirrors, or photos on the outside wall, all I saw was pressurized foam blocks that went up quickly forming the outside walls. Only three stories high I thought about the fire you mentioned and how it's still legal to do the same thing in London on low-rise construction.

[@zAlaska]

​@@AshCuprictaking a deeper dive, perhaps it's Margaret Thatcher that was the root of all the problems facing England today. Privatize all public works, and the few have all the money as they double and triple rates, even Hillary Clinton owned the London power utility for a few short months before flipping it with great Financial profits, what once was a stable public service, like the passenger train service privatized and short on cash.

[@RC-zm7hz]

Couldn’t agree more about Margaret Thatcher. She was an asset stripper of the worst sort. She bought votes with her short term gains for people at the edge, and built in long term profits for shareholders and owners at the expense of the community.

[@AshCupric]

@@zAlaska excellent points. There are no coincidences, it’s all actions taken for a specific goal. One where the citizens will never win by design.

[@only1adrienne]

An apartment building just collapsed in the Bronx this morning, four days after this video was posted. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@itsalexandramartin]

It’s crazy how you just may this video and in the Bronx a building collapsed just collapsed and has several violations.

[@chilversc]

Another issue Luis Rossman would comment on is the permit system and genral bureaucracy in NYC was such a pain that landlords that did care would often give up trying to get the necessary permits for the work.

[@DJMARVLNYC]

This is wild especially considering that street parking in most of midtown is non-existent during weekdays before 6-7pm because the city has made all street parking in the area commercial metered parking only a few years ago, so non-commercial vehicles are forced to park in garages. This doesn’t make me feel very comfortable entering garages that you have to pay upwards of $50+ for a few hours

[@Mialamorena1]

Whis is WHY the city has a train system that runs 24/7

[@rachelbonnar]

Hi Cash, can you update us on what basement unit dwellers had to go through during the AFTERMATH of the incredible flooding in September, 2023?

[@martelvonc]

This video played out before us today. I hope no one was trapped or killed.

[@debragago4696]

Hi i visited NY 20 years ago from the UK. I still remember looking at the stark contrast of new buildings sitting side by side with old buildings. Some of the older building also looked like they could fall fown then. Our hotel looked grand from the outside but inside was a different matter, plug sockets dangling from the wall. It was at the time of the marathon and the hotel was booked up. There was a constant queue of people every day complaining about their rooms. That said we had a wonderful time and the people were lovely 😊

[@chadleach6009]

Visiting nyc it really just feels very old. Not a well maintained antique but just old and decaying.

[@nightwalkerscrypt]

Building owners will always wait till last second before doing repairs on buildings to "save money". Always about immediate profits never thinking long term as selling off or tearing down is cheaper than repairing.

[@annieZannie]

I love your channel. You report on an array of things happening and it’s so informative and interesting. So much better than the news. 🥇

[@Teejayx4]

Another building partially collapsed in my neighborhood in the Bronx just 2 days ago! You’re right!

[@mikey_owens]

What were the odds, just 4 days after you posted this video, another building fell!!!!

[@Felineofmystery]

I just came here to say this

[@james5460]

I was once walking on University Place near NYU and one of those old five-story buildings had giant flames licking out of the third-floor windows. It was literally blazing. People were walking by, cars driving along, not a fire fighter in sight. You get used to seeing crazy stuff. He mentions no gas and thus people use hot plate - that's one cause of stuff like that.

[@katiegrundle9900]

so many apartments still have gas stoves and wood burning fireplaces. nuts. very easy to pull off that apartment blaze with charles bronson in the mechanic

[@aol6983]

The King of New York delivers once again on NYC domestic issues, great stuff Cash.

[@homobohemicus]

Age is not an issue but adhering to repairs, maintenance and strict enforcement of laws are essential. I live in a building that is 200 years old, my grandparents live in a building that is over 300 years old and studied my Uni in a building that is 750 years old.. All in tip top shape...

[@pinkiesue849]

Friend, what country was your 750 year old building in... thanks

[@adamn7516]

Age is still a huge factor. Also NYC's subterranean network of subway tunnels as well as the fact that Manhattan was originally built on what was once swampland all play a role. Also being a densely packed buildings as well as all the traffic and vibration underground from the subway system all lead to these eventual structural issues. But yes repair and maintenance is a major factor as well.

[@IonorRea]

While maintenance matters, It also depends on the type of materials and construction design used, there are centuries-old brick houses in the UK while structures built with Roman concrete that has self-healing properties due to bacteria found in building materials that were producing calcium when exposed to water with nutrients are around 2 millennia old. University in the Netherlands (check TU Delft self-healing concrete) recreated this type of concrete where both bacteria and nutrients are added in a concrete in form of small capsules that activate when exposed to water and seal the cracks in the concrete.

[@grantmail4112]

It's pretty cool being able to see when the train is coming whilst you're having a bath at the same time!

[@awhoot1]

Man, your channel is so full of knowledge an individual could learn a lot about your state, and other states!! Good work here, my man.

[@nicoleannhoward9259]

HI CASH ANOTHER FANTASTIC VLOG CASH YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST VLOGS EVERY MORNING I WATCH THEM WITH MY COFFEE EVERYDAY.

[@jekku4688]

Always loved your videos, Cash, but now that you've done a !PIVOT! away from standard real estate to the REAL WORLD of NYC, you've really stepped things up a notch! Very informational, above and beyond. GOOD STUFF. Where NYC goes, so goes the rest of us!

[@draaaven157]

9 million people but too many buildings to keep tabs on? Noway dude. Priorities are fucked and theres no profit in fixing old broken buildings. Doesn't have to do with the amount of buildings at all.

[@griffbos]

Interesting this video posted 4 days ago and today 12/11/23 a 6 story building partial collapsed in the Bronx

[@BadStructuralEngineeringFirms]

Part of the problem is that the buildings are not reviewed for structural code requirements. I interviewed with several structural engineering firms in NYC. The firms admitted the building departments only check for a seal. Plus the firms hire less qualified and/or less experienced people. And the firms do not care about life safety, only about profits for themselves.

[@nursebronnie1]

I know in New Zealand they are looking at old parking buildings and how they will cope with the increased weight of electric vehicles which are 30% heavier on average. We don’t have the old parking buildings like NY but they are definitely looking at then in NZ

[@Hulk365-jr4ec]

Much of America needs an overhaul

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

Republican ran cities and states are doing just fine. I live in one They always do construction on their street fixed potholes and build buildings so it’s just a Democrat ran cities that need to overhaul but people voted for this. That’s what they tend to forget.

[@bobsteve4812]

@@tiffanycurtis4794’Republican cities’ almost don’t exist. That and the cities in red states were demolished for highways and little remains that is anywhere near as old as NY. That and it’s not like similar stuff doesn’t happen in Florida…

[@checkoutmyyoutubepage]

@@bobsteve4812Texas has them but they don’t have zoning laws which means an elementary school can be next to a fertilizer plant. Not very smart. They also have a lot of industrial accidents.

[@denisekenney6436]

Omg! I’ve seen where people are standing on the corner shopping waiting for a bus whichever and a building starts to crumble 20feet from them!! No thanks 😮 wholly 💩 right?!

[@windowsrefund]

Valid issue brought up here aside, I learned back in 2001 that skyscrapers tend to fall neatly into their own footprint at free-fall speed as a result of fire.

[@vWaLLBangz]

Amazing, wasn’t it. Right on its own footprint, easy freefall. Didn’t hit one pillar, break up, fall sideways… nope all in itself 🤷🏻‍♂️ inside job!

[@MylotheZooLovingScientist]

In light of today's collapse in the Bronx, how prescient! The algorithm is sure to get a hold of this one swiftly and give even more exposure to this growing threat to public safety.

[@mrs.natashaellwood8634]

We have this issue with Skating arenas in Canada right now. My husband worked at one that collapased minutes after the end of his shift. 2 other ones later collapased and 6 got shut down after a structural inspection

[@arribaficationwineho32]

How does that happen? Stands around the arenas collapse? Aren’t skating arenas on ground level?

[@SimpleThings888]

Stay safe out there Cash. Thanks for your content.

[@kennethpogue718]

The city is falling apart and they refuse to use the tax payer money for what it needs to be used for. I moved to NYC in 2018 and I've seen such a decline in such a short time. It's so sad.

[@KiegKillsReality]

Loving the classic Casey Neistat type vlog style you got here! Very homey while also being very informative at the same time! I had no idea this was going on downtown!

[@MrMataos]

Cash jordan is insane for putting this up before the bronx apartment

[@AdamGoodson]

Came here to say the exact same thing. Erie how I watched this video just a day or two ago and then another building falls apart.

[@kenixk1010]

It's not just NYC, but most of America is collapsing. America is a nation in decline, just like Rome and Britian before them. The NYC infrastructure is over a century old, what do you expect?

[@ElleBrOw]

Best comment award 🏆

[@tigerstallion]

i expect people will learn how to build buidlings that last more than 100 years, but theyre still putting rustable rebar in concrete :/

[@Gee-xb7rt]

The US govt has spent over 10 trillion dollars mollycoddling the apartheid pariah Israel, death and rubble don't have a market value, yet that is where the Govt spends your taxes.

[@SMac-bq8sk]

Agreed. But, it's more the way they've progressively built structures more and more "on the cheap" over the past century. Plenty of much older buildings in NYC and elsewhere that remain structurally sound. Builders have taken less and less pride in their work. Structures are no longer built to last, just built to make bank on it.

[@TheBandit7613]

Speak for your own area. Las Vegas is the newest big city. Buildings are imploded regularly with new buildings going up. We have a newer infrastructure with newer roads and bridges. Newer houses. NYC and LA are in decline, Vegas is up and coming.

[@aishahoward1]

I always look forward to your videos. You always keep me up-to-date on what’s going on, I so appreciate you. Please keep up the great content. 😊

[@chelseahoney31]

When the towers came down like dominoes on 9/11, architects were asking why did that happen. They were expecting to just have the damage to be where the planes hit. But when we saw one go all the way down and then the second, it makes you think every time you walk into any building that has more than two stories. I’m on the 28th floor directly across from 1 World Trade Center and thank God every time I leave because it creeps me out.

[@user-eh5cr4or6k]

My elders explained it to me this way, sand is cheaper than mortar and they won't figure that out until the person that got paid for the concrete is long gone. That analogy usually came up as we would be driving past Soldier Field that was crumbling 10 years after it was built.

[@Memessssss]

There needs to be more inspections and repairs done around the city

[@Mialamorena1]

As far as residential buildings go, I can tell you that NYCHPD has approximately 400 inspectors to do all the inspections for RESIDENTIAL properties (including NYCHA). I know this because I am one of their auditors. Believe you me when I say, that is not nearly enough people, and the job is not as straight forward as you might think.

[@JaniceWithTheTarlovCysts]

As much as I'd love to be financially well off to live in NYC, this alone is the stuff of nightmares. So for now, I'll visit whenever I can. I'm maybe looking at NYC through my late 1970 to early 1980 rose tinted glasses though.

[@skynethell]

Great video, really makes you think about what structures around our own areas need attention

[@harqc.x]

Thanks for making videos that are easy to understand!

[@d-blockceltics3696]

Crazy how yesturday in the bronx a building partially collapsed and this video was made 4 days ago

[@gb23a]

It's funny when you go to Europe I see a lot of their buildings still standing and in like new condition for over 200 years.

[@sagarmaske5973]

people are so busy increasing rent in NYC they forgot to repair building .

[@vWaLLBangz]

Well sure. Unit owners increase rent. Doesn’t mean the owners of the building will do anything to maintain as they should. It’s a serious problem in major cities where buildings, roads, and highways are forgotten about 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@eily_b]

Well, the floor in my apartment is sinking because they tore down walls in the apartment below. I have big gaps between floor and walls and the landlord just decided to ignore it. It's living on a time bomb. If my kitchen collapses, they have to pay me all my stuff back. Most of the time no one does ANYTHING until it's too late. I am surprised the parking garage was saved.

[@eily_b]

Oh, and I am not in NYC, I am in Central Europe...

[@Robert-jb3hg]

How to repair these old structures that are already rotten? Logically, you need to replace old materials with new ones, but if you remove the old, the entire structure will collapse. Or was it necessary to monitor all this from the very beginning and, as problems arise, immediately eliminate them and not allow problems to accumulate?

[@theresehopkins1581]

Excellent how you're expanding your coverage of local issues!!!😊❤🙏 Bravo Sir!!!👏 👏👏 ...... I really do enjoy your reports!!! 🥳🎉🎊 😊❤❤

[@zm4202]

Bill Nye…I’ve been subscribed for awhile and kept thinking while I was watching or listening to your videos, your voice and tone reminds me of someone…it came to me just now, your voice reminds me of growing up watching Bill Nye the Science Guy.

[@xnoolin5521]

So what are they collecting high ass rent and property taxes for if its not for the maintenance of the buildings?? What about the infrastructure?? Where is all this damn money going if not to the city? We need to end this lobbying shit

[@isodimetrix]

u need to ask?? "asylum seekers!" and corruption my friend..

[@celesteredding1550]

Great question

[@ElleBrOw]

@@isodimetrixWith only 22 sanctuary states- How come other states are crumbling? Other countries? Other cities?

[@cerscil]

Landlords have a very difficult removing squatters who just don't pay rent. They trash the properties leaving landlords in a deficit. I'm not talking about the bougie uptown places. I have an acquaintance who lives in Manhattan and hasn't paid rent in 3 years, and complains about the condition of the apartment. It's comical.

[@troyarrington5492]

@@isodimetrixwhy is there always someone, in any country or era, that uses immigrants as scapegoats for every issue? That s*** is dry

[@Screenwriting]

Part of the problem is the landlords who have to pay ridiculously high rent and then neglect their buildings to save money.. I lived on E 7th street and 1st ave downtown and the landlord there was a full-on slumlord. When the woman on the top floor bailed the landlord couldn't clean out the place until the eviction went through. By then everything rotted in the fridge. He hired literal bums to clean it out and instead of moving everything downstairs to the trash they just threw it up on the roof which was disgusting but also dangerous because heavy objects like her furniture could have blown off onto people below. I called the city but they didn't care. The landlord hired, again, bums to clean the place. One of them allowed his friend to sleep in the boiler room in the basement...he had a makeshift apartment there. The landlord also ignored the fact that there was an illegal hair salon in the bottom apartment that stunk up the whole building when they did perms or whatever. Then, in the middle of winter, our heat would often go out and the landlord wouldn't take calls to let us know if he was working on it or to give an ETA...we'd all just have to wait and see. NYC is pretty much a shithole. Then you have the city workers: There was a period of time when construction cranes kept crashing down and killing people. We'd learn that there had been many complaints about the crane swaying in the wind and looking dangerous and finally that various city employees came out to inspect but determined everytihng was fine, only for the crane to come crashing down the next few days...something even civilians could tell was going to happen. This same pattern occurred at least 4 times over a two year period. I lived right around the corner from that place that blew up...I'm surprised it doesn't happen regularly.

[@Scarlet-Enchantress]

All of this and more is why I happily left

[@drewlobo2176]

Don’t make excuses for em. They don’t charge ridiculously high rent and neglect their buildings because they have to, they do it because they can. The least amount of work for the most profit.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Uh what? The landlord is the one who collects the overpriced rent. Because the landlord collects rent they are required to maintain the property. Which should be easy considering how much overpriced rent they collect. No, the perennial problem is greedy landlords.

[@Screenwriting]

@@GeorgeMonet I'm hardly a landlord apologist and I'd love to knock the teeth out of the one referenced above (who i did call a slumlord) but if I'm being fair people were constantly not paying rent for months at a time and then just leaving which meant he'd be out the rent and then months of future rent while the eviction went through the courts and because of all that he had to have a lawyer on retainer. People would also constantly sublet for years which meant the landlord wasn't able to increase the rent for a new tenant. I had a lawyer friend living in hells kitchen (actually he was living in chicago) and his rent should have been over $1500/month (this was a ten years ago) but he was paying $200 because of rent control. It would have gone up if my friend admitted to no longer living there full time but he used it as a crash pad once or twice a year because it was so cheap to hold on to. That doesn't forgive landlords to treat good tenants like crap which this guy did. But there's another side.

[@brendonmasters]

Podcast idea? Typical new Yorkers talking about exactly what you have gone through. It’s the only remedy for this behavior

[@FasterThanSoup]

Observing the changes in NY year after year, just deepens my appreciation for Tokyo.

[@vladmira]

Thanks for bringing the important issues about NYC to light. Like I always say, you deserve a Pullitzer Prize!

[@montanasuede]

And wow, there goes a building in the Bronx.

[@tooxtalivai0690]

Over a century of dodgy building practises, corruption and ignoring maintenance and servicing has caused this it’s probably going to take just as long to fix this.

[@JCB___]

Love the informative videos. Have you considered bringing your content over to other parts of the city such us up in The Bronx or down in Brooklyn? You can get some more informative content out there in the other boroughs

[@FreshAirRules]

The problem is almost nobody cares about areas outside NYC. It's basically the center of most everything American (besides entertainment and tech) so that's why we're curious about it. Also most everyone wonders what it would be like living in a hub like that. I'm amazed at how run down and filthy it is. I couldn't imagine living there for any length of time. Basically it's a place to live inside, protected by your walls and security.

[@HH_The_Great]

@@FreshAirRulesThe other boroughs are still part of NYC.

[@FreshAirRules]

@@HH_The_Great Whatever. People don't CARE about the Bronx and Brooklyn. They care about where things happen: In Manhattan. That's the center of the universe in their eyes. Not too many headquarters of immense companies in the Bronx or Brooklyn. Maybe for Vinny's Pizza..... :)

[@mitchellcutler2888]

I enjoy your channel a great deal, Cash. I live in Toronto and enjoy finding out about New York City that you don't really find anywhere else. Toronto has similar issues as NYC but on a smaller scale. Unfortunately, Toronto is getting bigger and bigger and I don't think that's a good thing. At an unofficial 4 million people the population is growing and it seems anyone who comes to Canada makes a B-line for T.O. which is not good as there are no other Canadian cities as large.

[@ksavage681]

Another building collapsed in the Bronx. You can see the crack in the corner concrete post on street view.

[@Chris.Davies]

There was another partial collapse today!