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Parking garage collapses in NYC, officials warn injuries, death totals may ‘change rapidly’
NY Post ^ | 4/18/23 | Joe Marino and Craig McCarthy

Posted on 04/18/2023 2:00:19 PM PDT by CaptainK

Multiple people were trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.

Shocking footage from the scene shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman get can be heard screaming, “Get out!”

A total of three people were hurt, two minor and one more serious but not critical, according to fire officials, but that number was expected to increase.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: collapse; garage; jimknowsdonors; manhattan; nyc
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To: srmanuel

One thing threads ALL these stories - we hear them thru the media.

That’s the Mockingbird eneMedia.

There are NO coincidences anymore.


41 posted on 04/18/2023 2:38:40 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

How about when an EV catches fire in a parking garage?

That would be fun.


42 posted on 04/18/2023 2:40:25 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: CaptainK

Update... 1 dead, 5 injured.


43 posted on 04/18/2023 2:41:13 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: CaptainK

Climate change compromised the concrete?


44 posted on 04/18/2023 2:41:55 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: CaptainK

If you look at one of the pictures of a section that didn’t collapse, it shows ~8-10 parking spaces with another ~8-10 cars parked in the driving isle.

That could easily double the weight on the floor, probably pushing it to the design limit.


45 posted on 04/18/2023 2:46:28 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: CaptainK

Illegal-immigrant constructed, shoddy materials purchased by mafioso contractor. Developer overcharged. Not a Trump project. Educated guess.


46 posted on 04/18/2023 2:47:29 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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To: CaptainK

that’s no regular car park and prolly way overloaded for spec...

the way they’re packed like sardines that’s a car term storage park


47 posted on 04/18/2023 2:48:37 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin

IMHO, very likely. Looks like abort 10-12 normal spaces, with 2-3 shoehorned in on the sides and another 9 parked in the drive isles. They appear to have doubled the capacity ion the ONE section of roof.

Who knows what the rest looked liked.


48 posted on 04/18/2023 2:50:27 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Texas resident

Ain’t EV’s grand???


49 posted on 04/18/2023 2:53:11 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: CaptainK

A news channel said they were told the building dates back to 1925.


50 posted on 04/18/2023 2:54:51 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Honest Nigerian

Alvin “Fort” Bragg


51 posted on 04/18/2023 3:06:22 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (the g stands for walter )
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To: Chode

New York Sheriff’s Department parks vehicles there.


52 posted on 04/18/2023 3:06:46 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: CaptainK

57 Ann St - been watching local news from NYC

Building was made in 1955 Probably overloaded

Original certificate said 5 cars per floor From video lot more cars than that, especially if double stacking


53 posted on 04/18/2023 3:10:10 PM PDT by njslim
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To: matt04
Yes, especially since this looks like it was built pre-1960.

Heavier cars then, but larger footprint.

54 posted on 04/18/2023 3:10:47 PM PDT by G Larry ( DEI = Division + Erroneous Indoctrination)
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To: CaptainK
I never take my car into Manhattan.

Always take commuter rail out of Connecticut and then either subway, Uber, or walk around town.

My train had already left Manhattan when this event occurred.

55 posted on 04/18/2023 3:11:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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To: Ex-Episcopalian
More likely an older building that was cheaply made and allowed to deteriorate, plus greased building inspection.

Stuff like that also happened back in the not so good old days of the 1970s.

56 posted on 04/18/2023 3:13:11 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: Salman

Or a bomb.

too many collapses, fires, explosions, derailments to be chance. We are looking at terrorism.


57 posted on 04/18/2023 3:14:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: CaptainK

NYC is a sh*thole.


58 posted on 04/18/2023 3:15:36 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)
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To: OpusatFR
Lack of maintenance and inspections.

Highly likely. The video from the dash cam of the car in the level second from the top shows how the area that collapsed was the portion of the second deck that was not under cover. The suspicion would be that the area was exposed to leaks that weakened the concrete and steel. The covered areas appeared to hold up.

59 posted on 04/18/2023 3:16:14 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: srmanuel
It would seem that everything in the country is falling apart,..

A couple of generations ago, there's no way that tiny woman would have qualified as a "fire fighter" (used to be firemen). Yet she's at the scene of the garage collapse, taking up space that could be occupied by a man who could be of use.


60 posted on 04/18/2023 3:19:15 PM PDT by Angelino97
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