Friday, November 10, 2017

East Harlem building evacuated due to enormous crack


From NBC:

Lara Wilson can see through her wall.

That’s because her upper Manhattan apartment building has a gaping crack -- at least a couple centimeters wide -- up an exterior wall that has splintered up from the second floor to the roof. And the crack is growing -- leading fire officials to hastily evacuate Wilson and nearly 30 other tenants while they assess the stability of the structure.

“Today, we looked out it and you could see out to the street,” she said. “So it’s pretty bad.”

Fire officials said it’s unclear what caused the crack at the building on East 96th Street and Second Avenue -- directly over the new Second Avenue subway’s final stop.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crappy developers. Crappy workers. Crappy construction.

(sarc) said...

Crack kills...

JQ LLC said...

Steve Croman would be impressed with the way the state and their way behind schedule building and completion of the 2nd avenue subway and the city's maniacal upzoning permissions for luxury towers wrecked this apartment building.

Not to worry, despite this misfortune and awful inconvenience I am sure our city will provide these folks will find a nice hotel room adjacent to mental defectives and recidivist criminals through the city's homeless program.

JQ LLC said...

By the way NBC, isn't this Yorkville?

Anonymous said...

Ground and foundation slab shifted, we see the exact drop separation cracks in the New York State Pavilion wall the exact same way and same places.

Anonymous said...

From crack house to cracked house.

Anonymous said...

Crack is everywhere .

Anonymous said...

For a moment I thought the headline referred to Gale Brewer...

Anonymous said...

This is not Harlem by any stretch