VIEJO DINOSAUR said:
I think you mean Bluestar.......
No. Bluehorseshoe is right. Bluestar is the airline.
It's also the building where a Mets coach lives.
Mets' coach lived in building where Lidle crashed
By Adam Rubin
New York Daily News
(MCT)
NEW YORK - Mets third base coach Manny Acta left his upper East Side apartment at 2 p.m. on Wednesday bound for Shea. Forty-five minutes later, Cory Lidle's plane slammed into his building at 524 E. 72nd St., killing the Yankees pitcher and his flight instructor.
"This is a moment when you put life in perspective," Acta said. "There are so many other things more important than your work. I wouldn't say it's a coincidence that I live there. I just have a job, like everybody else. Whoever works at a hospital or a post office, if he lives there, he can say it's a coincidence, too. It just happened that I'm here in a spotlight with the Mets. I'm just like everybody else living in the building. I just hope everybody else is okay."
Even before the tragedy, Acta had planned to spend his final night in his apartment on Wednesday night. His family had returned to Florida, and Acta planned to spend whatever remained of the Mets' postseason in a hotel after the team returned from St. Louis.
Acta first heard about the crash when his real-estate agent called him to see if he was safe.
"The real-estate agent and the owner of the apartment building just called me to see where I was," Acta said. "I said, `I'm at work.' They had a sigh of relief, because they didn't know where I was. I asked what happened. They said what happened. My daughter called me right away, too. And my wife. The phone was ringing off the hook with my friends who know where I'm living. It's scary stuff."
Acta watched developments on TV, as did players and coaches. He lived in a different part of the building and said his apartment was undamaged.
"I found out from the phone call, and then we turned the TV on in the clubhouse," Acta said. "The original report said on 71st (St.), so I said, `Oh, I just live one street over.' And then, when they clarified everything, I found out it's exactly the street.
"At first they wouldn't say the address. And then they said 524, which is my building."