CROSS ALSO ASSISTING.
IN MORRIS HEIGHTS, NEW YORK.
>> AS IT TURNS OUT THE CITY
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS KNEW
ABOUT PROBLEMS AT THE SITE OF THIS COLLAPSE TODAY.
CHRIS HAD THIS PART OF THE
STORY.
>> THE BUILDING COMMISSIONER
SAID THE DRAWINGS THAT OUT LINE THE WORK WHICH WAS BEING DONE ON
THE STRUCTURE SHOW KNOWN
PROBLEMS IN THE LOWER RIGHT
CORNER OF THE BUILDING AND THAT
IS SOMETHING DOB INSPECTORS ARE GOING TO WANT TO LOOK AT.
HE SAID THERE WERE 7 OPEN
VIOLATIONS RELATED TO THE FACADE
BUT NOT STRUCTURAL IN NATURE.
GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS WHAT IT USED
TO LOOK LIKE WITH THE SHED
AROUND THE BUILDING AND THE DELI
ON THE FLOOR.
THE SIDEWALK SHED WAS SUBJECT OF SOME PRIOR VIOLATIONS INCLUDING
THIS ONE IN WHICH AN INSPECTOR
FOUND PLATFORMS UNDERNEATH IT WERE BREAKING DOWN OR MISSING
AND THAT COULD LEAD TO COLLAPSE.
THE BUILDING COMMISSIONER ALTHOUGH THERE WERE PROBLEMS
WITH THE FACADE AND SHED THOSE
ISSUES WOULD NOT NECESSARILY
HAVE RAISED CONCERNS THE ENTORII
OF THE BUILDING WOULD COME DOWN.
>> THE OWNER OF THIS BUILDING
SUBMITTED THEIR MOST RECENT
REPORT IN MARCH OF ’21.
THAT REPORT DID FIND UNSAFE FACADE CONDITIONS, 7 OF THEM
MORTAR THAT WAS DETERIORATING
CRACKED BRICKS. THE LIST AN ACTIVE PERMIT VALID
UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.
WORK WAS BEING DONE ON THIS
BUILDING A FEW DAYS AGO.
>> LOCAL LAW 11 IS A SAFETY RULE THAT REQUIRES SHEDS TO PROTECT
RESIDENTS FROM FALLING DEBRIS.
OBJECTS STIMULUSTY THE
SCAFFOLDING COULDN’T SUPPORT 7
STORIES OF DEBRIS BUT THE FACT
THE BUILDING HAD THAT
SCAFFOLDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS
MAY HAVE INDEPENDENTS DATED THE
FACADE PROBLEMS WERE LINGERING.
THIS SUMMER MAYOR ADAMS AND HIS
COMMISSIONER UNVEILED NEW RULES TO GET BUILDINGS TO GET THE
FACADE WORK DONE FASTER AND GET
SHOWS SHEDS REMOVED.
FROM THE NEWS ROOM CHRIS, NEWS 4
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