Friday, January 17, 2020

Woman killed by plywood blown off building in Flushing


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NY Post

A flying piece of signage from a Queens produce market struck and killed a 67-year-old Long Island woman Thursday morning, police said.

The woman, identified by police as Xiang Ji of Westbury, was walking outside 41-28 Main St. in Flushing about 9:45 a.m. when she was struck by what city building officials described as “an aluminum-covered plywood panel.”

The panel was part of a vertical sign that authorities believe was blown off the building’s roof by gusting winds.

Firefighters later removed the remainder of the sign.

Police from the 109th Precinct said cops responded to several 911 calls from the scene and found Ji “unconscious and unresponsive.”

She was taken to New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital, where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.

Building department investigators were dispatched to the scene and issued the property owners a violation for “failure to maintain building in a code compliant manner.”

“Following our full investigation, we will take aggressive enforcement actions against responsible parties as warranted,” the officials said in a statement. “We have ordered the owners to immediately erect a sidewalk shed around the building.”

The owners of the building, Kam Kee Realty Inc., have 18 open violations at the site, including for illegal work without a permit and “unpermitted business signs,” building officials said. The company could not be reached for comment Thursday.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Third World.

Ok, as they vote Democratic.

Anonymous said...

Cue the 'illegal alien in the work force' and 'non-union' chorus!

Anonymous said...

What a sad story. What a disgrace, this is what became of Falasheng.

Anonymous said...

“Following our full investigation, we will take aggressive enforcement actions against responsible parties as warranted,” the officials said in a statement. “We have ordered the owners to immediately erect a sidewalk shed around the building.”

The owners of the building, Kam Kee Realty Inc., have 18 open violations at the site, including for illegal work without a permit and “unpermitted business signs,” building officials said. The company could not be reached for comment Thursday.

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18 open violations including work without a permit and DOB states they will take aggressive enforcement. Hell, they have obviously taken NO ENFORCEMENT. And this is why NYC is a SHITHOLE, no enforcement.

Anonymous said...

Just LOOK at that filthy mess on a NYC street. The Chinese revel in turning NYC neighborhoods into trash-strewn dungholes just like they left. With the unlicensed construction workers and other non-union help (and G-d forbid they should hire anyone but Chinese), it is absolutely no surprise that a piece of a sign flew off in the wind and killed someone. We should be grateful it was only one person. It was undoubtedly an accident waiting to happen. I watched 2 Chinese "mechanics" fixing NYC DOT white vans in the street behind my house. No license, no proper facilities, no oversight--and they threw away containers of highly toxic fluids into the sewer or left them where children can get into them in open garbage cans. Yeah, let's import MORE turd-world denizens to further trash NYC.

Anonymous said...

The DOB is not doing it's job and most residents of NYC are too ignorant to know !

TommyR said...

Crazy windy out yesterday.

Anonymous said...

I bet you the company isnt even located in America. Its probably just another foreign investor

Anonymous said...

I bet you the company isnt even located in America

Located in Brooklyn.

Anonymous said...

@Tommy

The wind is at fault here.

Anonymous said...

Falasheng and the crazies.

Did you guys forget the Dahlia bus accident? I knew the guy who died under the bus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/bus-crash-queens.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

https://ny.eater.com/2017/9/18/16326806/flushing-bus-crash-nyc-kennedy-fried-chicken

We can all agree cars, buses, pedestrians and construction don't go well in Falasheng.

Anonymous said...

Blogger TommyR said..."Crazy windy out yesterday."
It wasn't the first or last windy day we will have. Just ask Greta "How Dare You !".
Do you think illegal work without a permit had anything to do with this tragic outcome ?
The DOB is not doing it's job !!!

Anonymous said...

Flushing is a bacterial war zone,that's why they all wear masks.
Shop at your own risk.

Anonymous said...

Hey TommyR, remember Hurricane Sandy?
How many died on Main Street because of falling shit?