From Eyewitness News:
Angry neighbors are demanding answers after a building they have complained about for years suddenly collapsed.
No one was inside the vacant residential building on Ovington Avenue, between 5th and 6th Avenues, in Bay Ridge.
A call came in about the collapse just after 3 a.m.
Neighbors had no choice to evacuate as a precaution after the house next door caved-in.
No one was injured and the cause was not immediately clear, but the building had been vacant for the last five years and left to deteriorate by the landlord, Mousa Khalil.
Seventeen complaints have been called-in since 2004. City inspectors issued three violations. It was last inspected in June after the second floor collapsed.
8 comments:
17 complaints since 2004 and vacant for 5 years. Another example of a notorious absentee property owner who could care less about the community and a broken city system that just cannot get their act together to stop such bullshit.
"Mousa Khalil"
Thats your multiculturalsm and corrupt useless local goverment at work for ya.
Isnt it grand ?
If you pull that crap on Long Island they come fix it, slap mechanics leans on your house and eventually take it on you. And thats if they dont get hold and jail you first.
Why cant the city do the same ?
I used to live right across the street and can remember the giant holes that were punched into the roof of that building around the time when they put up that nice white fence...the plan all along was for that building to fall so that they could building something bigger on that patch of land.
Such a shame because it used to be a nice looking house back in the day.
Another New York City tradition is no more. In the past, the landlord would just torch it.
I had a similar experience a couple of years ago in LIC. I complained to Buildings that a commerical bld's wall was bulging out. They said it was OK. Complained again. Still "OK." That week the wall collapsed onto the sidewalk.
This was planned by the landlord. Now he will sell the property to a developer for $millions. Sorry that neighbors had to put up ith this for so long.
Inspectors were in cahoots with the landlord. Perhaps, they nay have been related...
If you pull that crap on Long Island they come fix it, slap mechanics leans on your house and eventually take it on you. And thats if they dont get hold and jail you first.
Why cant the city do the same ?
Because they are busy with bike lanes, putting hipsters to sleep next to train yards, giving parking tickets for that 10 seconds over the limit, pondering deeply the alternative life style, which hack gets what street corner or parking garage named for them, and trying desperately to satisfy the most pressing problem of Queens: the nutritional needs of day laborers.
They must be doing a lot: I get a steady stream of junk emails listing all the problems they are solving that I never knew existed.
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