Another imminent building collapse in NY ... Does Larry Silverstein have insurance on this building? ... Hmmmmm former HQ of Pfizer

So much potentially going on here … from the article - “The 38-story building was sagging between the 21st and 26th floors, according to the FDNY. First responders also noted that 2 columns buckled between the 21st and 22nd floors.” … One should really be more careful when presetting those implosion charges.

Hmmmm … Any alerts at nearby airports? Any kind of drills involving aircraft going on? Have any planes turned off their transponders? Anything going on at the Pentagon? Have we accounted for all of the Saudis in New York? Any groups of (((them))) seen assembling on rooftops appearing ready to dance at any moment? Quick: does anyone know the location of Richard Cheney? - Oh, that’s right. He is in a known underground location. One can not help being curious about these things when hearing of an imminent building collapse in New York.

"The building is in the process of being converted into an apartment complex with more than 1,600 units, The Times reported. The project was slated for completion by 2027.

Observation: Boy, the housing situation in New York is getting K raisey. Some one really doesn’t want more housing for criminal illegal aliens.

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Also check to see if there happened to be any large gold repositories under the building…

and IF so… perform an audit.

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Interesting history of building, it is now Jewish owed. David Werner….

235 East 42nd Street how old is building occupancy history…

Age of 235 East 42nd Street

235 East 42nd Street was completed in 1960, making it 66 years old as of 2026.

Occupancy History

Initial Occupancy

  • Opening Year: 1961
  • Initial Occupancy Rate: 85%
  • Primary Tenant: Pfizer’s international offices

Subsequent Developments

  • 1974: Pfizer expanded its headquarters.
  • 2003: Pfizer acquired additional space at 685 Third Avenue, indicating that the 42nd Street buildings were insufficient for its needs.
  • 2016: Pfizer announced plans to sell the building and relocate its headquarters.
  • 2018: The building was sold to David Werner and partners, with Pfizer leasing back the space temporarily.

Current Status

As of July 7, 2026, the building is undergoing a conversion to residential use, which began in 2024.

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… sounds like an insurance scam in the making to me. Current value somewhere around 1 Billion USD. Sounds like they are going to have to “pull it”. I’ll be shocked if it is left standing.

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… Awesome reply by someone commenting on the ZH article concerning the building collapse …

The Miracle of Value Engineering

The greedy developer stood before the investors with a grin.

“We’re not just converting this office building into apartments,” he announced. “We’re adding another 16 stories luxury penthouse apartments on top.”

One engineer quietly asked, “Won’t the existing structure require substantial reinforcement?”

The room went silent.

The greedy developer finally replied, “Let’s not be prisoners of mathematics.”

Adding sixteen stories wasn’t about housing. It wasn’t about architecture. It was about discovering how many additional penthouses could be squeezed out of the same foundation before the laws of physics demanded a seat at the board meeting.

Every extra floor meant another row of luxury units.

Another few million in pockets.

Steel, unfortunately, was viewed as an unfortunate expense that generated no revenue. Nobody buys an apartment because of the invisible beams hidden behind drywall.

So the sacred ritual of “value engineering” began.

Every beam became “overdesigned.”

Every safety factor became “conservative.”

Every engineer who uttered the phrase “load capacity” became “not commercially minded.”

The spreadsheets were magnificent. Every deleted ton of steel translated directly into higher profit margins.

Gravity remained unimpressed.

Then came the inevitable question.

“What happened here?”

A union member answered:

“What happened here is that this building was renovated. They were going to add another 16 stories to it. But at that point you need to add more steel. And obviously they did not add the right amount of steel—so the north side of the building is crumbling. The I-beams are bending like cigarettes.”

Suddenly, everyone who had celebrated the sixteen additional stories discovered they had no memory of who approved them.

The developer blamed the contractor.

The contractor blamed the subcontractors.

The consultants blamed outdated codes.

The lawyers blamed everyone except the people who had insisted that every extra dollar spent on structural steel was a dollar stolen from the greedy developer’s pockets.

In the end, the only participant that refused to negotiate was gravity.

Unlike investors, it cannot be impressed by PowerPoint presentations.

Unlike executives and consultants, it cannot be bribed.

Physics always performs its own audit—and it never accepts greed as a substitute for steel.

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that was my office for 20 years. Left in 2007

That’s right. I worked for one of the most corrupt companies in the world.

Back off for a moment.

When you were 20 something years old beginning your career, I’m sure you were well read on the evils of the military industrial complex?

But I figured it out when I saw all those Washington Think Tank people coming and going and Politicians in the building every day. Clinton, Gingrinch, Giuliani.

The average executive is not corrupt. He is brainwashed to believe the hype. I didn’t. But Boy I could tell you some stories.

Like most of NYC, they build these luxury buildings and set aside apartments for the indigent. That means a guy paying 5K a month for a studio apartment can live next to a guy who never had a job and fresh out of the rehab clinic taking his methadone.

It’s called integration. Diversity. And the developers are happy to do it in exchange for reduced taxes. The developer makes out, the city makes out and but the people in the neighborhood living in 10 million dollar apartments are sh$t out of luck.

I don’t think welfare recipients can afford to eat in that neighborhood. Would have been great to watch.

everyone should live in a democrat ruled city once in their lives. What good is watching corruption on the news?

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… a couple of corrections … The average executive is paid to ignore the obvious (e.g. politicians who had NO business being in that building for any reason) and believe what he/she/it are told. It is not called “integration”. it is called stupidity.

the integration was a reference to section 8 housing in NYC.

NYC policy requires new developments in certain rezoned areas to include a percentage of permanently affordable units (often 20-30%).

All of a sudden neighborhoods like Chinatown aren’t looking as Chinese anymore.

Pfizer, like any major corporation, has two tiered management system. The Board of Directors is the Deep State and everyone else is high paid secretary even the President. I know. He told me.

There were no vaccine departments before I left. That happened after I left.

They really belief it because their success is tied to believing the hype and getting 1000’s of sales people in doctors office to brain wash them to dispense a drug.

They actually do not believe in alternative medicine. None of it.

Trust me on this one. People can be more ignorant than you ever imagined.

When a man tells a thousand people that every male in the United States should be on cholesterol medicine, everyone else beliefing that horse crap isn’t getting PAC $. I watched their faces. Oh yeah, that sounds like a plan. Idiots.

In Germany, pharamcies carried herbal medicines. For a period of time, St. Johns wort for depression was outselling their depression drug, Zoloft. What they do is funnel money into a clinical study to show that their drug is more effective with quicker recovery time than the herb. The other 1/2 of the idiots is the people that believe it

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I had 24 hours to contemplate this story.

What’s to contemplate? Shabby construction, Greed?

Nahh, there is more to this story.

This is a modern day biblical miracle. Shiva…The destroyer is at work. Ok, the other bible.

The City of New York was planning to put almost 500 indigent families into a former corporate skyscraper in a busy business district. The companies in that area used to employ more people than the population of most countries. Met Life, Pfizer and a bunch of foreign embassies including Israeli, and is a transportation hub near Grand Central. You don’t want to live there.

Of course a couple of blocks away Trump constructed a luxury condo next to the United Nations.

No sane person wants to live near these international portals where people self emolliate themselves. Unless that’s your thing.

The real estate developers are in bed with the corrupt politicians. You flood that area with 500 indigent people and you have big problems. There are NO common people supermarkets in that area. You’re going to pay 10 bucks for a carton of orange juice. You’re going to flood the luxury parks with people drinking 64 ounce cans of malt liquor.

This is the cycle that Joseph writes about in Babylon Banker. Well, I might sound like a broken record but honey we’re home. We are in that window of the 18.6 year real estate with is one third of the business cycle discovered by Kondrieff as we head into 2027. Lions, Tigers and Bears.

The big corporations moved west. During COVID, they spent billions of dollars over night and erected a Hudson Yards. Facebook, Pfizer and fancy luxury malls. I forget what other companies. Zuckerberg was hoping it would be a self contained city…a commune. You can enter but you never leave.

After COVID they built super duper high skyscapers. In a blink of an eye. Bank of America building and a new one right across the street from Grand Central. Yuge…

The New York Skyline changed and nobody noticed. LIterally.

Cranes Everywhere. And more Cranes everywhere.

Head over to the wikipedia of all the worlds tallest buildings being erected ALL AT THE SAME TIME

Do you guys remember when the Empire State Building opened in 1930’s, it opened empty? 18.6 year real estate cycle.

They are going to displace all the money and luxury of that area, and put in modern day tent cities. You won’t see them because they are hidden inside a luxury building about to collapse.

This is modern day PROJECTS being erected in the dying financial capital of the world as companies moved out of the area and to Texas and all the signs were always there.

The home prices are going to plummet and soon Trump’s luxury apartment will be a soup kitchen.

REgular people don’t eat in those restaurants in that neighborhood unless you have a corporate Amex card. They are going to need to build more McDonald’s and quickly.

Here’s the rub. This has been happening in cities across the world as we move into the top of the cycle. Somewhere within a 100 miles of your house, old industrial and swamp land was turned into a mall, or housing development. People track this stuff globally.

Bitcoin was the first sign that this was happening.

The actual physical collapse of the structure (tentative) that’s just fun!!

George Carlin approves this message.

I wanna see a paint factory blowing up! I wanna see an oil refinery explode! I wanna see a tornado hit a church on Sunday! I wanna see people— I wanna know there’s some guy running through the K-Mart with an automatic weapon firing at the clerks! I wanna see thousands of people in the street killing policemen! I wanna hear about a nuclear meltdown! I wanna know the stock market dropped 2000 points in one day! I wanna see people under pressure! Sirens, flames, smoke, bodies, graves being filled, parents weeping… exciting noodles! My kind of TV! I just want some entertainment! It’s just the kind of guy I am! It’s the kind of guy I am! You know what I love the most? When big chunks of concrete and fiery wood are falling out the sky and people are running around trying to get out of the way!

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Destruction and construction gives the “scientists” something to do and think about all day and night long.
When a degree in “Finance” became the golden ticket to a successful career, things got might strange…

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… nothing but scams all around.

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FRAUD IS?
The American Business model.

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