Posted on 04/19/2023 9:34:34 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show.
The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial District, was a four-story building that “pancaked … all the way to the cellar floor,” Department of Buildings acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik said.
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Yeah, but the people who parked there were glad to have an affordable place in NYC for their car.
Built in 1925. I wonder whether it was built as a garage or was built as some other type of building and then “converted”?
Quick, blame the nearest Republican.
So who is/are the owners of this garage?
When was the last inspection?
How many similarly vulnerable buildings are there in Manhattan?
In Brooklyn?
Etc.
Some highly reported collapses of this kind have happened in Florida in the last two or three years.
I suppose climate change and/or racism are the likely culprits in this most recent disaster./sarc tag not needed
Nope. Clearly all Trump’s fault.
I want the info on HOW MANY EV’s were parked there when it collapsed.
It’s a beautiful garage, and it’s gonna be there.
Good idea....wait a minute...wasnt Trump seen in town recently?
“had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show.”
Then why the hell was it not closed down until repairs were completed?
The city is culpable in this IMO.
It was a garage already in 1940.
10 new car lifts were installed in 2010.
So they may have recently upped the capacity of the parking structure without repairing the hazardous condition.
Also, I’d think that the average weight of cars has increased with bigger SUVs and EVs with heavy batteries. A Tesla X is over 5000 pounds, which is more than twice the weight of a Ford Model A.
http://talkingtrash.journalism.cuny.edu/landfills-manhattan/
Building on top of landfill doesn’t sound stable to me.
“Some highly reported collapses of this kind have happened in Florida in the last two or three years.”
One specifically in Miami Beach.
Since then, literally every high rise building on the Florida coast is now being inspected and repairs programmed and initiated.
Our building 90 miles N of there has that happening now. At great expense. Our unit’s assessment is $30k over the next 18 months to pay for it.
I understood from my previous work experiences that New York and California formerly had the strictest construction standards in the country; due to high-rises, proximity to salt air corrosion, and (for CA) earthquake risk. I suspect in this case there was graft/corruption and/or incompetence.
I was thinking the same about the cars of the late 20s vs the cars of today.
OTOH, you’d think if it survived some of the beasts of the 50s/60s/70s...
Ann Street is on fairly high ground in the center of the island.
Topographical map of the City of New York : showing original water courses and made land
https://www.loc.gov/item/2006629795
If you read the article it states it was converted to a garage in 1957
Near the financial district, eh?
I bet some of the destroyed cars had tasty price tags.
NY is just too busy investigating Trump to pay attention to actual crime and the deterioration of their buildings.
Ike's Fault.
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