NYC’s Charming Water Towers Are Actually Bacteria-Filled Horrorshows

NYC's Charming Water Towers Are Actually Bacteria-Filled Horrorshows

Ah, New York—the sparkling skyline! The bustling streets! The… poop-filled water tanks? According to a new report from The New York Times, the city’s roughly 17,000 water tanks are totally unsanitary and widely unregulated.

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Used Sprinkler Tank House Sees New Life as a Gorgeous Rooftop Loft in NYC [Beautiful]

Brian Messana‘s gorgeous latest project, Tank House, is the quintessential NYC remodel: a renovated existing apartment plus the addition of an old, used sprinkler tank house, completing repurposed as a gorgeous, glistening rooftop loft escape. New meets old. Or maybe it’s old meets older? Either way, it’s what NYC does so well. [Inhabitat] More »