1915 Billingsley Terrace (also referred to as 172 West Burnside Avenue)
Thankfully the entire building did not collapse like in Surfside. The progressive corner collapse reminds me of the incident in London in 1968.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/11/photos-bronx-six-story-apartment-building-collapses/
First responders rush to the scene of a shocking partial building collapse in the Bronx on Monday, December 11, 2023. FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh says drones, K-9 units and the department are still canvassing the rubble for potential victims.
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You beat me. 
That corner of the building appears to be supported by this column. Note the cracks circled in red.
Building prior to collapse
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That looks like it could be a relatively active corner. Burnside is usually a busy street in that area? I hope no one was standing on that sidewalk when the corner came down.
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I got more close-up screenshots of the cracks which as you can see, progressively got worse as time went on.
2019
A view from the front of the building, facing where the collapse was.
2022
The cracks are really bad in 2022 when zoomed in, it’s not surprising why it collapsed.
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How in the world does reducing parking translate into less autos? All it will do is make more people park illegally. People need cars and that won’t change.
Eliminating the requirement to build parking allows developers to build more units of housing for cheaper because the extra space can be used to house humans instead of cars. This residential density promotes walkable neighborhoods with less distance between commercial areas, which in turn decreases peoples’ dependance on cars.
In most of New York, people do not need cars thanks to existing density and availability of public transit. If other cities were to eliminate parking minumums, we could see them shift in this same direction.
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It’s amazing no one was seriously injured or worse. We’ve had too many structural issues with buildings this year - that carpark collapse in the Financial District that killed the manager; then we had that crumbling carpark in Hell’s Kitchen that shut down an Amtrak line for nearly a week, and now this partial collapse in the Bronx. What’s going on?
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Wet.
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Eight states saw their population fall in 2023: California (-75,423), Hawaii (-4,261), Illinois (-32,826), Louisiana (-14,274), New York (-101,984), Oregon (-6,021), Pennsylvania (-10,408), and West Virginia (-3,964). Collectively, these states had a population loss of 249,161 in 2023, compared to a loss of 509,789 in 2022. While many of these states have lost population annually since 2020, their population declines have slowed.
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I didn’t feel anything; slept right through it.
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1.7 is probably unnoticeable to the senses.
It may, however, had rattled some windows - leading to reports of “explosions” in Roosevelt Island and Astoria.
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OMG that looks amazing! So much better!
the snow drought is over!
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