{"id":1316,"date":"2006-07-20T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/boom-bust.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:57:35","slug":"boombust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/boombust.html","title":{"rendered":"Boom-Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

The so-called “Dr. Boom” was laid to rest in a Queens cemetery yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dr. Boom went out with hardly a whimper yesterday.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who last week allegedly blew up his own tony East Side townhouse rather than see his ex-wife get it, was finally laid to rest in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Queens.<\/p>\n

Bartha, 66, died late Saturday night after hanging on a week following the July 10 blast, making good on the last of three reported suicide attempts.<\/p>\n

A woman who answered the phone at Glascott Funeral Home in Forest Hills yesterday said she had no details on the doctor’s final above-ground appearance.<\/p>\n

“There was no funeral services or anything else like that,” she said. There was a gathering “just with the immediate family.”<\/p>\n

Bartha, locked in a life-and-death struggle with ex-wife Cordula Hahn over a building worth more than $5 million, vowed that he would never give it up alive — and he didn’t. The East 62nd Street townhouse was blown to smithereens on July 10 after someone opened a gas line, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

The blast left a four-story gully between the adjoining buildings.<\/p>\n

At the double tombstone, there was a sole vase containing a selection of red roses, carnations, white daisies and white chrysanthemums. A note said the flowers were “from the Foldes family,” the family that owned the adjacent tombstone.<\/p>\n

Taped atop the Bartha half was a 3-by-5 snapshot of the doctor, taken perhaps 20 years ago, since he looked to be in his mid-40s. He was holding a little girl, about 2 1\/2. Bartha is survived by two daughters, Serena and Johanna, both of whom would have been very young at the time of the photo.<\/p>\n

Attached to the snapshot was a purple string with a bouquet of white roses, the flowers a bit flattened. A cemetery worker said they had been left by Hahn.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The so-called “Dr. Boom” was laid to rest in a Queens cemetery yesterday: Dr. Boom went out with hardly a whimper yesterday. Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who last week allegedly blew up his own tony East Side townhouse rather than see his ex-wife get it, was finally laid to rest in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Queens. Bartha, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}