Well, Steve Kuzzo, the great columnist, New York Post, writes about real estate and restaurants

and New York and nobody does it better. You can read all of his columns. They're all up on the New York

Post website. Steve Kuzzo, how you doing? Hey, Mark, I'm good. Thanks for that great introduction.

You always make me sound relevant. You're very relevant. Hey, now you wrote this column.

The Citibank building

was a new technology, was

how it almost toppled.

And we're looking at the window here at

Billionaire's Row where they got these super

tall, thousand foot

little needle thin.

How do we know these aren't going to fall?

Well, that's the chance you take. No, I'm kidding. I think that, you know, technology, building

codes, engineering have advanced enormously over the decades. I don't think there's any risk of any

building in New York City falling

down, except for the odd occasional tenement, you know, in the South Bronx. But in the case of

Citicorp, yeah, I did a story about that, it's online today. A guy wrote a book, a guy named

Michael Greenberg, who's a lawyer and a historian and he recounts

the saga of the city court building in the 1970s when the problem wasn't the engineering the

engineering at that time was actually very very sophisticated the problem was that to the chief engineers dismay, he discovered after the building was up

and opened and filled with thousands of employees working for the bank, that the original

design plans had not been followed by his own team of engineers.

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