Co-op City (short for Cooperative City) is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods.[1]
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The Co-op City is featured in Home Wrecked Home.
It was introduced in 1 week after people when it stands the mirror opposite of the swanky San Remo. The show gave information that Co-op City is one of the nation's largest apartments complexes, cram with 55 thousands residents, and epitomized the cheaply constructed high rises in the 1960's. Steven S. Ross stated that it was badly constructed in the first place and given with the history of it, it takes 10 to 15 years for major parts of the structure to begin failing. Co-op City's 50,000 thousand pilings face a daunting enemy, it sunk into the reclaimed tidal marshland which sinks a fraction of an inch each year. Steven S. Ross stated that the ground around the columns is slowly sinking since the pavement area where the curbstone isn't tie to the rest of the building and it's already below the original building line.
Co-op City after 100 years.
Its fate is then revealed in 100 years after people when water attacked the structures from above and below. Steven S. Ross stated that the flat roofs drain to the inside to internal drains and with the water has no place else to go, the drain will leak and invades the insulation underneath. Meanwhile, the sinking land has reverted to tidal mudflats and Co-op City resembles an apocalyptic Venice as it floods. Tanya Komas stated that the area of the building in the splash zone where waves are hitting it and when the water level rise and lower with the tide, the splash zone is going to fail. Then a massive winter storm blows in from the northeast. Steven S. Ross stated that the northeastern would get a fair amount of wave pounding against the building and it would displace the building. Finally, the weakened splash zone buckles under the northeaster's assault and with the forces of water from above and below, the former homes of 55,000 New Yorkers collapse and swallowed by the shifting tides of New York City.
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