A New York City civic-data project
intact value:
After the Knicks won, vandals destroyed more than $1,000,000 in vehicles in NYC — every one a documented, NYPD-stated count: 5 school buses + 9 NYPD vehicles + 1 yellow cab. And that's before the “multiple other personal vehicles” no one has tallied.
Hauled to a scrapyard, every twisted piece of it is worth about
That's roughly $79 destroyed for every $1 the metal gets back — about 1.3¢ on the dollar.
The unrest turned over $1,000,000 of working vehicles into a $13,000 pile of steel — $800,000 of it on championship night alone. Nobody chose to sell. Nobody got paid.
Each one had a price the day before. Here's what it was worth — and what's left to scrap.
The dark joke of destroying a vehicle: the metal recovers almost none of the value.
Take just one — the school bus everyone saw burning
About 59× more value torched than the metal will ever return. And these buses had just shuttled fans to the World Cup at MetLife.
Pick your car. See what a scrapyard pays for the bare metal. (Spoiler: a real buyer pays more.)
or enter your car's curb weight: lbs
You've seen what a mob can do to a car.
That bus lost 98% of its value the second it caught fire. Your car loses it slowly — to repairs, tickets, and time. There's one number that ends the guessing.
What's my car worth? →A scrapyard pays you for the weight. A real buyer pays you for the car — running, dead, dented, or done.
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