An Abandoned Mansion in NYC Raises Questions
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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1-Lattingtown-Rd-Glen-Cov...?
10.9m USD.
https://goo.gl/maps/RKSrH21K1h9P9TaD6
The article says "just a few miles outside of the bustling heart of Times Square," but it's over 20 miles to the northeast.
Stop 100 native New Yorkers near Times Square and ask them where Glen Cove is. Probably one person will know. The other 99 will tell you where you can stick it. :)
Edit: BTW, just to make clear to the vast majority of HN who aren't intimately familiar with NYC, neither the city of Glen Cove nor Nassau County are "in NYC". So the article title is clearly clickbait. But we already knew that, didn't we?
I couldn't be bothered to read the entire thing. Apparently you're expected to click NEXT every hundred words. But I did get this far:
According to reports, the mansion is owned by an unnamed wealthy property owner who regularly buys large mansions and leaves them to deteriorate. The owner has apparently purchased a number of lavish homes and left them all to rot.
That's strange. How about a link to the "reports".
I'd love to see the NYC tax records where they record ownership by "an unnamed wealthy property owner". The property tax on six acres in NYC is high enough that people who can afford that are smart enough to manage their money more prudently. But I suppose it could be money from Chinese or Russians moving their wealth overseas.
There's just enough strange phraseology that I'd venture that the article was written by a non-US person.
A 30 mile drive, or 21 miles as the crow flies. That seems a bit further than a few to me.
"The mansion is just 5 miles from the busiest center in the world yet appears completely abandoned from the outside"
How rich can someone be that they can buy mansions, do nothing with them, and also dodge the fines that should seemingly come with not maintaining a property? Unless they're not being fined of course, in which case, sign me up for that.