The New York City Department of Buildings' online records show the structure at the site of the collapse had been cited for 45 violations, including 25 since 2003, many related to its elevators.
NEW YORK, USA – A four-story parking facility collapsed in New York City’s lower Manhattan near Pace University and the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, April 18, killing at least one worker and injuring five others who were inside the structure, authorities said.
Reuters video footage from the scene, in Manhattan’s financial district blocks from the World Trade Center and New York Stock Exchange, showed a rescue operation getting underway and multiple cars stacked on top of one another amid crumpled slabs of concrete. Robot devices were then deployed, he said, marking the first time city firefighters had flown a drone aircraft into a fallen building to conduct a search.
One 2003 filing noted that “ceiling slab cracks exist” as well as “defective concrete with exposed rear cracks.” It said an $800 penalty had been paid for the violation.“It all happened so fast,” said Thai Nguyen, 35, who lives in Chinatown and is a manager of the nearby Kollective Klub. “Our store is two buildings from the parking garage, and we also have a hotel next to us. People ran inside asking if they could take refuge inside our store.
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