You won't own it .... but they will be happy
The plan to save city commercial property...
fill them with new friends from the south
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Easily done. I have read here that putting in new plumbing for the new apartments is the obstacle. One FReeper said that every plumber in the US would need to come NYC to put in new plumbing.
This is what NYC needs to do to these empty office towers.
Run a large diameter water to the top floors. Residents and denizens of each floor can turn the tap there to haul drinking and cooking water into their apartments. In standard 5 gallon plastic water bottles.
Every ten floors there are showers that tap off of this pipe/ The shower water goes down a new large diameter drain pipe. Every ten floors there are eco-commodes. People are encouraged to piss down the drain pipe. The waste from the eco-toilets is taken down the freight elevator every few days. Or maybe once a week. Waste goes into a sewage truck and is dumped somewhere, anywhere in New Jersey.
For cooking run some new mains up the building to a communal cooking area on each floor. For heating each apartment, there will not be any. The residents will get vouchers to buy long johns and other thermal wear,