It’s when a virus like the cornavirus(COVID-19) becomes widespread globally
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What the heck is a coronavirus? COVID-19? What the heck is that! How can a beer be a virus. What the heck!
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You don’t know what the coronavirus is?? And how can a beer be a virus when I didn’t even mention it??
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That’s my question. How can a beer be a virus!?!?! Doesn’t make any sense.
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Ok first of all its doesn’t make any sense because it’s extremely unlikely for a beer to be a virus.
Btw this is becoming off topic now in this thread
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Clearly Yimby is being sarcastic and it’s great.
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Ugh, i saw 9 new posts here and I was sure official renderings had dropped. How dare you all just be joking around!
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I want a couple of small pieces of this building’s steel. Depending on what type of steel it is, I could probably take a piece of it to a swordsmith. Anyone else think that a sword made from a skyscraper’s literal bones sounds pretty bad-ass?
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That sounds pretty bad ass dude.
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I have some pieces of metal from 3 WTC 
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That’s pretty cool, how did you get those?
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I had walked past a few months back before the stay at home orders, I asked a few of the construction guys I saw they said they couldn’t/ they’d get in trouble, and the actual waste containers were inside the site as opposed to on the street as they sometimes are.
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Turns out this guy was right about dozens of guys in the basement. They are pouring concrete down today- no idea why
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Wonder why they’re pouring concrete down there. The basement levels coincide with East Side Access and when I went on tour, the section of the mezzanine levels that directly connect to 270 Park above was walled off but most everything around it was already finishing up/framing. They said that they will be doing demo since columns, foundations were shifted because of the new building so perhaps this is a part of that work.
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Aww, that sucks 
I wonder who is buying the scrap steel? That would be my next inquiry- whoever is buying the stuff might be willing to part with a few small chunks- I don’t think scrap steel goes for that much a pound, but I’d offer a little extra for the labor involved in cutting off a couple of chunks small enough to carry.
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Trail the dumpsters someday and see where they go…
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The steel members are likely NOT in the dumpsters.
Structural steel from this building is probably worth a lot more than the $57/ton steel scrap average since it only 60 years old, in big pieces with basically no impurities.
If this building has ~30K tons of structural steel (guesstimate since I couldn’t find the actual number) then that’s worth at least $2M.
They’re going to keep those pieces segregated.
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Grand Central District 1922
From my Book Moses King Kings view of New York 1922
on flickr Brady Cloud
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Currently being demolished by JPMorgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue, formerly the Union Carbide building, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie Griffin de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.Credit…Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
A Postcard from the Union Carbide Building 1962
Headquarters for the Union Carbide Corporation, this 52-story skyscraper is the world’s tallest stainless building.
Postcard credit: Manhattan Post Card Pub. Co.
Collection by Mackensen
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