Manhattan, NY +Major Collapse+
Manhattan, NY +Major Collapse+ NYPD are calling for a level one mobilization for a 25x75 4.5 story doctors office and beauty salon and reidential above building that completely collapsed poss gas fed explosion at 34 East 62th Street between Madison and Park Avenue's building is on fire and some people are reported trapped. All special services responding.
Two other buildings involved.
U/D: 09:18
FD calling for a 3rd alarm and a 10-60 has been transmitted, and requesting Con-Ed on a rush for the gas fed fire.
U/D: 09:48
FD upgrading to a 4th Alarm.
EMS is transporting 4 victims one is a firefighter.
U/D: 10:19
Fire upgradet to a 5th alarm.
One aided is trapped and critically burned.
As per Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scopetta, A doctor on the first floor office may have attempted suicide, an e-mail was received earlier from the doctor.
Heavy oder of gas has been reported before explosion and collapse.
U/D: 11:29
Fire Chief is placing this fire as P/W/H.
OEM on the scene reporting a total of 6 aided injured with one critical trauma, 0 fatalities.
U/D: 11:56
Fire Chief is transmitting a 6th alarm for relief purposes only.
A total of 15 were injured in the explosion/collapse.
The doctor whose building was destroyed the explosion was involved in a bitter divorce battle and has been accused of traumatizing his Jewish wife by placing Nazi paraphernalia throughout their home, according to court records.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 7/10/2006 08:47:00 AM
10 Comments:
At 9:42 AM,
Anonymous said…
NEWS ALERT: Fire officials say an explosion and fire has caused a three-story building to collapse between Park and Madison avenues in New York City. There are reports of people trapped in the building.
At 9:47 AM,
Anonymous said…
4th alarm
At 10:16 AM,
Anonymous said…
It’s a 20' x 55' 4 story plus basement brownstone owned by a doctor, which housed a doctor's office in the basement.
At 11:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
The doctor's name is Nicolas Bartha, not Basa.
At 3:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
NEW YORK - The doctor whose building was destroyed Monday morning in a midtown Manhattan explosion was involved in a bitter divorce battle and has been accused of traumatizing his Jewish wife by placing Nazi paraphernalia throughout their home, according to court records.
A New York appellate court ruled against Dr. Nicholas Bartha in January 2005, writing that over the course of their marriage he put “swastika-adorned articles and notes” in their home and “became enraged” when his wife removed them.
Court records indicate an intensely fierce divorce proceeding, where a major issue was ownership of the building.
At 8:04 PM,
thekvetcher said…
i saw josh guttman running from the scene
At 8:17 PM,
Anonymous said…
she get what she deserves for marrying a goy
At 9:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
8:17 Why do you have such contempt for people who don't agree/think like you.
And why shouldn't people who don't agree/think like you treat you with contempt?
At 12:08 AM,
Anonymous said…
The marriage of Cordula and Nicholas Bartha seemed punctuated at times by his rage. And when it ended, according to some who knew him, that rage turned to a despondency that police say might have triggered Monday's explosion and collapse of the East Side building Bartha owns.
"Everybody bothered him. Life bothered him," said Alan A. Winter, president of a dental imaging company that used to be housed in Bartha's building at 32 E. 62nd St. He said his former landlord was "absolutely despondent about the breakup of his marriage."
The couple's 1977 marriage followed a four-year courtship while they were studying in Europe, according to court records. Cordula Bartha, a Dutch woman of Jewish origin, left their townhouse after her spouse traumatized her with swastika-adorned articles and notes put up around the house, the court records indicated.
When she tried to take them down, Nicholas Bartha became enraged, according to a decision filed in their divorce case that began in 2001. The divorce was finalized last year.
Divorce cases are usually confidential, but a ruling in 2005 by the Appellate Division in Manhattan exposed the raw side of the Bartha marriage.
Nicholas Bartha, of Romanian and Hungarian heritage, ignored his wife's needs when she went in for surgery and treatment for breast cancer, the court said.
"He systematically cut off her access to marital funds and credit as a means of psychological abuse," the court stated. "Even (Cordula's) assertion that (Nicholas) completely ceased speaking to her is not benign, but must be understood in the context of the prior years' verbal abuse."
The appeals court found that a lower court referee's decision not to award any part of the $6.3 million townhouse to Cordula was contrary to principles of equitable distribution of property in marital cases.
Cordula had initially been given $2,000 a month maintenance for three years, something the appeals court indicated wouldn't allow her to live anywhere close to her old standard of living.
By 2005, Cordula and the couple's two adult daughters were living in a small apartment in Washington Heights, said the court.
Cordula's attorneys, Donna Bennick and Polly Passonneau, issued a statement Monday asking the media to stay away from their client.
"The emotional turmoil wrought by the parties' divorce proceedings, capped by this unspeakable tragedy, is difficult enough to bear," the lawyers said. "Ms. Bartha and her family are deeply saddened and terribly upset by today's occurrence."
Both lawyers declined further comment.
One former tenant who asked not to be named described Nicholas Bartha's behavior in recent years as eccentric. The doctor did not allow employees to leave garbage in garbage cans, did not want female employees to wear perfume, complained if lights were left on, and apparently walked around with a thermometer to make sure air conditioners were not set too cool.
At 1:42 AM,
Anonymous said…
Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, who lives with his family in the Cumberland, said he was standing across the street, waiting for the light to change, when the blast shook the block.
His wife the Rebbetzin was at a different corner with their children, and he yelled out to them to run.
Then the Rebbetzin yelled back: “The baby is inside.”
Rabbi Kermaier, 36, went running back to the couple’s second-floor apartment, thinking, “I’ve got to get there as fast as I can,” he said.
“I saw things flying around,” he said. “It was a sudden, deafening boom, then smoke and fire.
I went running through the smoke and got the baby and the nanny out.”
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