Last Tuesday evening, debris from atop the corner building on Avenue B at East Houston fell, reportedly breaking the foot of a 57-year-old man passing by on the sidewalk.
On Friday, workers arrived to erect a protective sidewalk bridge.
The FDNY promptly ordered a structural stability inspection and logged a complaint with the Department of Buildings. There aren't any work permits on file yet on this long-vacant building.
Given that mostly nothing has happened here the past few years, we imagine that the sidewalk bridge will be up for some time… perhaps even breaking an EV record in the process.
H/T EVG reader Magic Brian
Previously on EV Grieve:
Cleaning out the long-closed liquor store on Avenue B and East Houston
Is something finally happening to the long-vacant, mysterious 6 Avenue B?
"long-vacant building"?? That's surprising. I would have thought it was a market rate apartment building or an affordable one clinging onto the old ways.
ReplyDeleteJust a couple of weeks ago my boyfriend and I were admiring the rounded windows on the second floor.
Next step it's snapped up by a bloodsucking vampire - er, developer - torn down, and a new "luxury" glass and steel abomination will rise in its place.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that it is the only building around with like 20 cell phone receptor thingy's on it & also a generator for them - maybe that is why it is still vacant? Not sure that they could do that on a market rate building.
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