Engineer report found cracks, other concerns about partially collapsed building in Bronx
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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My apartment building is currently deemed “unsafe” but it’s all words and no action. 😢
Better find another accommodation or atleast initiate moving
I’m sorry. That’s frustrating.
Why r u being anti semetic@@user-kr4rz5hn4n
Well, if someone declared my building "unsafe' I would bail out. No action means, you may end up in a pile of debris. It happened to these people in Florida a couple of years ago. Many died in there. So awful to die that way........
@@linanicolia1363 I agree. You see the warning signs. Try to get out before it too late!
There are many buildings in the bronx that have cracks in it
Especially NYCHA
Yeah, and they should be addressed. Would you let a cut or gash on your body go unaddressed?
That's concerning 😟
Sadly to say! There are a lot sleazy landlords out there,that all they do is sky rocket the rent every year,but only do very minimum repairs,and always seem to hire shady person to do repairs and all they do is cut every corner possible. 😡😡😡. These types of things go unnoticed until mayhem strikes.
@user-kr4rz5hn4n . I think is safe to assume that they might. After all! I think all of the building are owned by them. At least all the places that i’ve lived at. Those last names are very popular in their community. Like jose! It’s very popular in the hispanic community. And go figure! My name is jose,and i am hispanic🤣🤣🤣.
@user-kr4rz5hn4n that’s a smart man right there. He loves his job and also loves his kids. 🫡🫡🫡. He lives his life worry free. No stress. 😆
Yeah. Just come around on rent day. Shame
NYC is so reactive, when most of this could be prevented if they were proactive.
Damn. Who fixes a building and starts from the top down?
Imagine looking for a oil leak that way
If you suspect there is a leaking roof then yes, you start from the top down.
If you start from below removing and replacing then you create an extreme weak point for the full weight of loose bricks to come crashing down. You always start by removing the heaving loose weight from the top and making it strong. The issue here is the DOB loves to protect themselves from their mistakes like they did with 1 of my jobs downtown which I am waiting for it to collapse so I can show them an entire 3 yrs of back and forth reports with engineer statements saying the building is going to collapse and they said it won't.
@@MartinRFernandezthank you for this explanation, and thanks for your work to keep us all safe!
Things decay after over 80 yrs especially brick , mortar and wood. Come on people, get with the program!😂
There are plenty of old buildings that were built before, and during the early past of the last century not being maintained. Just a matter of time before you hear of more collapses. i.e. Chinatown, etc.
If it were "my home" I would have left decades ago. These old firetraps have been a plague on the Bronx since before anyone living was born. They should not exist. They are not designed to last centuries. They cannot be improved to last centuries and are not precious cultural artifacts any more than my garden shed. Laws should focus on gentrification because ONLY gentrification makes bad areas into good ones. Determine a reasonable age after which a building should be removed and replaced then give tax incentives etc to make it happen. NY real estate is worth enough to replace worn out buildings. NYC should look like Tokyo and other genuinely modern cities, not some movie set from the Great Depression (this building was erected two years before the market crash!).
why dont they freeze the bank accounts of the landlords when they see that they are not correcting the building violations??
Ah its called due process. Try North Korea for that one
What i noticed that i have not heard much mentioned, is that the walls that came down looks like they held the radiators which weigh alot and when you turn them on and the valves are not changed regularly they drip massive amounts of water when the heat comes up that will weaken the floors and wall over time , if they tuned the heat on and the water was leaking alot , then the sheer weight of the radiators over time will bring down the walls and go through the floors...like the old days with the claw tubs that would overflow that were in the kitchens in tenaments on the LES , they have taken down whole sections of building with water overflows...just a thought wonder if these cracks are behind heavy radiators
That’s exactly what it is
Plus, that building's 96 years old.
@lifeskater9899 right all the years are really starting to take its tool , the sad things , I like older Apts, they have great layouts and big spacious rooms and beautiful architecture, especially the ones built on the concourse...these new builds are small rooms with not much character
Agree the radiators can do alot of damage and sadly they did. aka SLUMLORDS
Everyone knows who owns that building. They probably was waiting for a contractor to fix the problem for 50 dollars.
"I left a message for the owner,but he did not get back to me."
Gee,I wonder why.😡
HES IN FLORIDA
@@ekop1778 Or Rio!
The owner of the building doesn't care about the validation apartment building.
Old pictures of the building show the corner pillar used to be very large, but it was reduced to a very small size when bottom corner store added.
Where did u find the old photo?
@@cloudnine2925 I saw them on one of the newsclips. One was the whole building in about the 30's....another of the whole building in about the 80's.
Then a recent one from modern Google maps. Only the last one had a store in the bottom corner.
@@cloudnine2925 Google Maps! You can view the store year after year and you can literally see the crack getting bigger since 2018 to now
exactly. that's what I thought that store actually removed lots brick just to add windows in there. without proper support. I believe deli owner should be reponsible as well. Looks like first floor was built the proper way and it would never ever collapse itself without intervention. But owners desire for more profits made him convert first floor apartments into Deli
It seems these greedy and narrow minded and shallow minded cost-cutting and penny pinching landlords are willing to take a million tons of risks instead of putting an ounce of prevention whole raking in all the money to live high on the hog. My granduncle and I when we design and build something, we make sure that it is maintenance-free and trouble-free and repair-free by over-engineering everything because we know HUMAN NATURE FACTOR and knowing that means we have to be proactive engineers by making sure that everything will still be as good as new in their original pristine newly and properly constructed state EVEN WHEN DELIBERATELY NEGLECTED.
ABC 7 I have seen on UA-cam news videos of a woman saying she needed to get in the building to get her cat. That the cat is in the dark and cold also starving. Her cat and other animals need to get out. Will you look in to this !!
The police department needs to inspect the bank account of the building inspector. The crack on the ground floor had been dismissed for many years - but the engineer knew it was a structural element and not merely a facade.
One decent size earthquake and that city is dust
Likely it will be the water that will get them. They are sea level.....A little underground earthquake and a tsunami and NYC is history !
Greedy landlords trying to save money on construction costs, but still raising the rent on tenants.
This is a perfect opportunity for these tenants to move to a better place outside of NYC.
A blessing in disguise
Thats how my brother's apt is on the inside of the room. And the building is lopsided
And I bet the rent was sky-high 😒
I saw a picture on the wall of a serviceman !
There's a crack in my apartment doorway. Microscopic red ants are devouring everything. Please send Erin brokevich. The conditions are very depressing also the carbon emissions from the parking lot is very very extreme. I need rescue 😔🤕😭
What are you waiting for. Move out.
It's a slumlord dream most of the old buildings in New York will be locked down if they did a proper inspection and that process was not corrupt
2:08 hmm I reckon this guys weights might have had something to do with that collapse lol.
That’s crazy how . They invited us back in? They kicked us out the shelter and gave us only a few days to pack and leave!
Some of the buildings in NYC were built just after The Civil War. The 1870's and around then. You got the other issue of vibrations to these buildings from the traffic on the streets all the time causing these cracks over time.
I grew up in that neighborhood and legit remember seeing that crack too lol rip Louis (the mural in the pic)
I hope no one got hurt and can lawyer up and settle big!!!!
always money money money what a nasty doomed civilisation.
THE MAYOR HAS A HUGE CRACK ON HIM NOW
SIR YOU BETTER FIX IT
Flat roofs leak alot if not maintained and I'd bet through the years water ruined that corner of the building. Pooling water in that corner perhaps. Terrible all around.
Yep , certainly , it looks like that , and I'm thinking , those wall and corner floors are where the heavy radiators are , weak wood floors and walls sure , and we have had some very wet weather for the record , this can happen to any of us living in these 100 yr old building , nothing is forever , or does not cry out in someway for repair help
Nothing in the engineers report
Holy shit Verne
the owner of the building of course won't return any reporter's calls!
It appears that one of the units was home to a military family. I hope they get preferential treatment for new housing.
Yes. A GP tent
The way she said it tho "he did not get back to me"
It appears
@0:24 "we spoke to the engineer and. . . based upon what he sees. . . it appears the corner collapsed"
REALLY!!! OMG I HAD NO IDEA!!!
Thank God I have a government appointed official to tell me what I saw.
96 years old? Jesus
one word: SUE
So they knew. That’s what I said. SMDH. Yeah blame covid
These buildings are old period. Before COVID. LOL
Can you say, OSHA!!!
OSHA applies to workplace safety, not homes. That's what building inspectors are for.
OSHA-is health and safety of workers not buildings
You are correct...
3rd world 😂
Also the section collapsed seems to be all bathrooms, could have been plumbing leaks?