neighborhood watch
Namibian Mission Crumbling on 36th Street
That one ring on Anne Hathaway's finger could probably pay off half of these debts. Unfortunately, she's now out of the picture.
The fire trucks are pulling in again at 36th and Lexington. It's the second time in the past few years — once a couple of years back for a huge blaze that blew out windows and blackened the facade of the brownstone at 135 East 36th, and today for a partial collapse of the same building. The brownstone is home to the Namibian mission to the United Nations, and it sat, dark and burned-out at the end of its well-kept block, until earlier this year. Several months ago, the Namibians started a major renovation, one that called for the whole back of the building to be sawed off and a new glassed-in wing to be built over the rear garden. And we could not help noticing, once the scaffolding went up, that the walls had been secured — or "secured" — with huge angle irons bolted through the brickwork. We'll be walking on the other side of Lex for awhile.
