Be Careful, The Bellevue Gets Around

I almost forgot! A chunk of the Bellevue fell off the building on Sunday onto Broad Street, leading to the new leading candidate for Philadelphia quote of the year:

When he realized what happened, he couldn’t help but think of the Bellevue’s storied history as the site of the first publicized outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease.

“This is where Legionnaires’ came out of,” Goldenberg said. “So it’s a dangerous building.”

Who knew it was still dangerous? I guess the Bellevue can join the House of Usher and that house from “The Destructors” as “dangerous buildings.”

Camden Courthouse To Collapse In A Minute Or So

Got a leak in your apartment? Maybe a broken cabinet door? A slow drain? Maybe a mouse or two?

Well, you have nothing on the Parkade building in Camden.

This really can’t be contained in paragraph form, so — and I really hate to do this for the second article in a row, but — I have to go to charticle format. The Parkade building, which houses probation, juvenile and child-support offices, has:

• a leaky roof, leaving half of the top floor unusable.
• deteriorated to the point where you can see through a wall.
• concrete, metal and other tiles falling on workers from the ceilings.
• unreliable elevators that smell like urine and frequently break down.
• a worker who contracted Legionnaires’ disease.

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