The story behind the bunk beds
Missing NY att’y wanted ‘fresh start’
A haunting photograph has emerged of bunk beds precariously perched on the gutted remains of the collapsed Florida condo tower — and it was reportedly in the rented penthouse of a Manhattan attorney.
The heartbreaking image caused many to wonder if a child or children had been sleeping in the room when the Champlain Towers South partially collapsed on Thursday, the Miami Herald reported.
However, that now seems unlikely because the bed was part of New York City native Linda March’s furnished unit in the doomed building, according to the news outlet.
March, 58, who is still considered missing, had recently moved to Surfside from the Big Apple alone for a “fresh start.”
“She sent me pictures of the apartment,” her best friend, Rochelle Laufer, told the Herald. “The place was beautiful, oceanfront, with beautiful views.”
Laufer said her friend used the second bedroom as a home office, which would explain the black desk chair seen near the bunk beds in the destroyed apartment, which the attorney rented in March.
Images of the two-bedroom penthouse still appeared on rental site Apartments.com Wednesday morning, including an image of the beds.
“Amazing waterfront views from this two-bedroom penthouse,” reads the old listing, which says the apartment is “no longer available.”
Laufer said her friend’s only gripe about Champlain Towers South was the noise.
“The one thing she complained about was the construction. It started at 8 in the morning and kept going all day,” she told the paper.
The building was undergoing extensive renovations and repairs leading up to its 40-year recertification at the time of the tragedy.