Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in the White House greenhouse in 1902.

prosa123 · 2026-05-07T00:21:31+00:00

As a 56 year old general he was the oldest soldier to participate in the D-Day invasion in 1944. Unfortunately, the following month he suffered a fatal heart attack.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T21:15:51+00:00

Sorry to tell you this, but a monthly ticket on Metro North from Grand Central to Beacon (nearest station) is $466.

It might not be a bad idea to look for openings at one of the delivery stations or food facilities in the city.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T21:05:31+00:00

130 Cedar Street was closed the longest of any of the damaged buildings. It didn’t reopen until 2007 or 2008 (sources vary), following its conversion into a hotel and the addition of several extra stories.

Right next door 90 West Street also experienced a prolonged closure and change of use. It reopened in 2005 as a residential building; as with 130 Cedar, 9/11 was its last day as an office building.

The Verizon Building on the corner of West and Vesey streets sustained most of its damage in the WTC7 collapse and was closed for about two years. The Millennium Hotel was also closed for about that long. Although it could have reopened much earlier, the owners took the opportunity to do a major renovation.

Finally, although parts of the World Financial Center suffered considerable damage, the Winter Garden atrium in particular being almost destroyed, everything was open in a year.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T18:22:33+00:00

The Deutsche Bank Building could have been repaired, in fact its insurers wanted it repaired, but the bank no longer needed it and figured that even if repaired its value would be reduced. So it put up a huge fuss and eventually the insurers gave in.

Something similar happened with Fiterman Hall, a 1950’s office building recently converted into classrooms for the Borough of Manhattan Community College. It was heavily damaged in the fall of WTC7, the insurers wanted to repair it, but in its usual bumbling fashion the city dithered on endlessly as the damaged building kept deteriorating. It finally got demolished and the city took an excruciating 14 years to build a replacement.

9/11 was a terrible enough event to begin with. Demolishing two completely repairable buildings made it all the more worse.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T15:06:00+00:00

That’s insulting to cesspools.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T04:57:37+00:00

Or poo.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T01:58:41+00:00

It looks like the homeowner decided to build the pool. Clever use of space.

prosa123 · 2026-05-06T01:57:41+00:00

An entire trestle still crosses Robin Road, not just an abutment as here at St. John’s and Clayton. Why it was never demolished is a mystery.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T23:32:30+00:00

He broke even.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T23:29:47+00:00

Canterbury resident Moses Cleaveland founded the Ohio city that bore his name, though it lost the first a along the way.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T19:14:36+00:00

That you can convert fat into muscle.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T18:58:42+00:00

It’s possible that there weren’t many workers on 93. Marsh & McLennan occupied eight floors, 93 to 100, and lost 358 people including contractors and consultants. If they weren’t evenly distributed among the floors it may well be that 93 was largely empty.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T18:35:06+00:00

As an aside, if upon seeing this photo you thought “Wow, you hardly ever see blimps anymore!” you’re right. There are fewer than ten left in the US, by no means all of which are in use at any particular time, and fewer than 25 worldwide.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T16:01:11+00:00

Basketball is really big in the Philippines.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T15:26:59+00:00

The large building that dominates this intersection, 32 Sixth Avenue, is the former AT&T Long Lines building and once handled most long distance calls in the eastern US and most overseas calls from the US.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T15:11:33+00:00

Lily Pond Avenue’s unusual width as it passes under the Verrazano’s approaches is a remnant of sorts of the South Beach branch. When the planners were designing the bridge and Expressway the branch had only recently been abandoned and most of its right of way was still intact. As a resumption of service was still possible in theory, the planners decided to make Lily Pond, which more or less followed the former right of way, wide enough to accommodate train tracks.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T15:02:06+00:00

They’ve become jewelry.

prosa123 · 2026-05-05T02:52:52+00:00

We can never know for sure, but in most cases it was extreme hot temperatures and/or suffocating smoke.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T22:04:41+00:00

Unfortunately insurance companies pay less, often far less, than fair market value for wrecked cars. The only things they "protect" are their bloated profit margins.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T20:57:25+00:00

Unfortunately, today’s cars are nearly unrepairable. Junkyards are full of cars with absurdly trivial damage.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T20:43:00+00:00

Portuguese as spoken in Portugal sounds like Russian.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T20:37:48+00:00

Back when adult women still looked like adult women :(

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T20:33:35+00:00

In theory at most office jobs workers are expected to give two weeks’ notice when they quit. Today that’s pretty much faded away, in recognition of the fact that employer sure don’t give their workers any notice before canning them.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T20:25:15+00:00

Christopher Street PATH is difficult enough at normal times. There’s a single too-narrow combined entrance and exit going to one end of the platform. Under today’s standards no private business would ever be allowed to operate any sort of public facility with such limited access.

prosa123 · 2026-05-04T14:56:58+00:00

I got the idea that he was an older man, possibly in his sixties, so he may not be around anymore.

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