Denise Jack got a good news-bad news phone call from an insurance company yesterday regarding her blue 1993 Nissan Pathfinder, which was buried by an avalanche in Upper Manhattan last year and has been sitting beneath the mountain of dirt on Riverside Drive ever since.
The good news was that after more than a year of waiting and frustration, her sport utility vehicle would soon be dug out.
The bad news was that she would have pay to have the S.U.V. — or the presumably flattened hunk of metal, glass and rubber that was once her car — towed away.
The car, one of several, was buried May 12, 2005, when a wall collapsed. The car owners were told by the insurer for the building whose wall collapsed that they couldn’t be paid until the cars were unburied and vehicle identification numbers verified, etc.