Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The New York townhouse U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has lived in rent-free for the past 10 years is a crumbling firetrap, the New York Daily News reports. Documents seen by the newspaper indicate inside the brick 4-story building's plaster walls are crumbling, the electrical system repeatedly overloads and the plumbing leaks. Advertisement So before South Korean Ban Ki-moon takes over leadership of the United Nations from Annan at the end of the month, the international organization has allotted $4.3 million for an overhaul, including $200,000 for the kitchen, the newspaper said. Other costs include a $2.1 million heating and cooling system and $650,000 in security improvements. During the nine months of renovation, the United Nations will pay $202,500 for a hotel suite for Ban, the newspaper said. The 14,000-square-foot townhouse was built for Anne Morgan, daughter of financier J.P. Morgan, in 1921 and last had major work done in 1950. It was donated to the United Nations in 1972.
