For the past few months, the view from my office has been gradually marred by the construction of Trump SoHo, a 42-story "hotel condominium" located at 246 Spring Street, about seven blocks away. Before the cranes and scaffolding and concrete went up, we had a pretty nice view of the Hudson River. Today, the view got even worse: one of my co-workers stared out the window and noticed that a chunk of the building looked like it had broken off.
We checked the news online. In an effective example of citizen journalism, reports and pictures from the incident were quickly available on local news sites. Gothamist, for example, put up a frequently-updated page with photos taken by neighborhood residents. I remember something similar happening on hundreds of blogs on and after September 11th, 2001.
From what I understand, a construction worker was killed when part of the building collapsed. Scary stuff, and damning for the Donald, whose building has already been in the news for all the wrong reasons multiple times in the last few months.
Oh, and the crumbled corner of the building reminded me of the posters and trailer for Cloverfield.
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