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OptimusSublime t1_je58pjn wrote

The only thing that surprises me is that the building is practically vacant and needs 100 million dollars in upgrades. So it's essentially just a huge Instagram background right now? For lack of a better analogy.

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Pennwisedom t1_je5uc9y wrote

From like 1959 on St Martin's Press / Macmillan Publishing would buy empty office space when tenants would leave until by 2004 they had taken over the entire building but they left in 2019 and it's basically been empty since then.

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smellyfrog0811 t1_je5t7ht wrote

The previous owners couldn’t agree on renovations once their tenant occupying 100% of the building long term vacated.

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More_Garlic_ t1_je64qw5 wrote

I mean, it's covered with scaffolding, so not even worth a photo right now.

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_Faucheuse_ t1_je6aspr wrote

And will be covered in scaffolding for a long time. Brick and mortar buildings are a reason the scaffolds are up, barring new construction. Repointing a building that size is a huge undertaking and a long ass process. and that's just the exterior... I'd hafta be paid good money to see what is behind those walls and above the ceilings inside the place. Construction during the turn of the 19th century was using all sorts of materials that today we know are just a big old stew of cancer.

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Pterodactylic t1_je6nrau wrote

I can't remember the last time it wasn't covered in scaffolding, I'm not in that part of town that much but I don't think I've seen the bare structure in the last 5 years.

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jjd13001 t1_je6y0a6 wrote

It’s vacant because the offices inside it are horrible, they’re all very weird angles and very small. The building is pretty to look at but inside it’s a completely different story.

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cogginsmatt t1_je77j3n wrote

Well print is dead so the Daily Bugle had to move out, they were the biggest tenant

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