#Manhattan *UNSTABLE BUILDING* 28 Ave B & E 2 St. #FDNY has cracks from 1st to 2nd floor. Building has been evacuated & req buildings dept
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 16, 2013
This is the building with Croxley Ales on the ground floor...
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This was filed with the DOB at 3:48:
Re: FDNY REQUESTS A STRUCTURAL STABILITY INSPECTION DUE TO VERTICAL CTACK AT REAR OF BUILDING FROM THE 1ST TO TOP FLOOR AND
Category Code: 30 BUILDING SHAKING/VIBRATING/STRUCT STABILITY AFFECTED
Construction recently started in the empty lot next door on a new 6-story apartment building...
[April 2]
Updated 4:28
Via EVG reader David... firefighters waiting across the street...
Updated 4:35
Unconfirmed reports that adjacent buildings have also been evacuated...
[Via @black_von]
Updated 4:54
[EVG reader David]
Avenue B between East Second Street and East Third Street remains closed...
Updated 6 p.m.
Here's more information via DNAinfo, who reported that the evacuation occurred after debris started falling from the building's fifth floor earlier in the afternoon.
A woman who has lived in 28 Avenue B for 20 years said she started to notice cracks in her ceiling after construction started in a vacant lot at 26 Avenue B next-door to her building.
"It was shaking the building," said the woman, who would only give her first name, Charlotte, 40.
Also,the following report is on the DOB website now for 26 Avenue B, where the 6-story building is under way: "EXCAVATION WORK HAS UNDERMINED ADJACENT PROPERTY."
Joe Ferrante, an FDNY battalion chief, told DNAinfo that excavation "possibly contributed" to the damage. The developer did not have a comment yet from the developer.
Updated 6:49 p.m.
The DOB ordered that residents must stay out of 28 Avenue B for the foreseeable future
[Photo via @zigisitch]
Updated 7 p.m.
Avenue B is now back open between Second and Third.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] 6-story apartment building ready to rise from the former Croxley Ales beer garden
This is so fucked. It almost happened to my building too and I know it happens every day. Then the landlords can evacuate, displace people til they don't want to return, and then flip the apartments over for market rate. The developers should be held liable for housing all these people in comparable LOCAL apartments.
ReplyDeleteAnother unsupervised construction job, a hallmark of the Bloomie era. No inspections, no nothin'. Anything for the builders and screw everyone else.
ReplyDeleteEcho of 172 Stanton St.?
ReplyDeletehttp://evgrieve.com/2009/02/remembering-172-stanton-st.html
I'm expecting to happen on East 9th Street too, in that once-parking lot at 323. They dug a giant hole, no building props, and seem to have abandoned it. Evil bastards.
ReplyDeleteTo the RE industry trolls who have bloviated on other previous treads here about tax supports for the “entitled”, here is your tax dollars at work (NYFD) here for the unbridled capitalism, supported by Bloomberg administration. All we need now is a major crane accident here to make the process complete. Oh wait, after the re-zoning is done, a fait accompli.
ReplyDeleteAre the residents allowed to at least get some important stuff out [medicines, papers and other vitals]
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine being at work all day ad then coming home to this shit.
This is not good... You can pretty much say bye bye...
ReplyDeletei used to live in this building - it is rent stabilized and one of my neighbors who was in his 80's paid only $65 a month to live there. The owner of the building is dying to get those folks out of there so that he can jack up the rent. It saddens me deeply that these folks are having to suffer due to his greed.
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