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From
SI Live:
The construction company tasked with performing the demolition of the old Dana Ford Lincoln car dealership in Travis, where a worker was killed Friday after the ceiling collapsed, did not have a permit to operate on the premises, Buildings Department records show.
Port Richmond-based Formica Construction had obtained seven permits related to construction at the West Service Road site since last August, but none are currently valid, records show. The most recent permit expired on Aug. 15.
Officials at the buildings department could not be reached Saturday, but a complaint report on the agency's website states that, "Unpermitted interior demolition caused the mezzanine level to partially collapse to grade."
The buildings department placed the site under a full stop work order following Friday's fatal incident.
From the
Daily News:
THE RACCOONS tormenting a Queens family are still living in their attic — despite one of the brood having fallen through the bedroom ceiling.
Patricia Gilbert, 48, said the seven unwelcome critters were in their nesting place at her Springfield Gardens house Saturday — one day after a raccoon terrified her family and got pepper-sprayed by a cop.
“They didn’t go anywhere,” said Gilbert.
The raccoons rummage for scraps during the night, and typically come home around 5 a.m.
“When they come in to go to bed that's when they make the noise,” said Gilbert.
The landlord of her home still hadn’t repaired the hole in the ceiling, Gilbert added.
From the
Forum:
A Howard Beach family was nearly driven from their home after the ceiling in their living room collapsed on Friday morning. Sandra Hanan was watching TV about 9 a.m. when she decided to go into the kitchen for a bite. But as soon as she got in the room she heard a loud splintering sound followed by crashes and bangs coming from the living room.
When the senior citizen raced back inside she was horrified at what she saw before her. The entire ceiling had collapsed onto the family living room, covering furniture with split sheet rock boards and stucco.
The rocking chair where Sandra had been sitting only minutes before was now buried under a pile of broken boards with large nails protruding from them.
Her husband ran from the bedroom to see what had happened–worried that his wife had an accident or even worse, that his 88-year-old mother-in-law who lives with the couple, had fallen. “My heart was in my mouth as I came running down the hall,” Rocky Hanan said. “I looked at the chair my wife sits in every day and couldn’t help but get sick to my stomach thinking about what could have happened to her.” They immediately called the fire and police departments.
Hanan said that he and his wife moved into the apartment a little over a year ago in June of 2011 and that there were problems right from the start. Instead of waiting for the landlord to come and fix little things, he did it himself at the couple’s own expense.
Then last summer things at the house started to get much worse after the basement took on a few feet of water. According to the couple, the landlord didn’t address the problem until everything was covered in mold. “He never had anyone come in and do mold removal,” Rocky Hanan said, “they [workers] just put new sheetrock up on the walls so potential buyers for the house wouldn’t see what was underneath.”
Despite the mold condition he said he had no idea that things were so bad under the ceiling that it would just collapse.
From
NY1:
One Queens renter is happy to be rid of a gaping hole inside his apartment after contacting NY1. Our Susan Jhun filed the following "NY1 For You" follow-up report.
Queens resident Manuel Peguero says he's happy that a huge hole is no longer right over his head.
"Before I cannot use the bathroom because whole water coming down soon as they flush the toilet upstairs," Peguero says.
Peguero says it's been going on ever since a large piece of his bathroom ceiling directly over his toilet collapsed in June. He says every time the tenant above him flushes his toilet, water drips down through the hole not only making a mess but also rotting away his already broken ceiling.
Peguero contacted "NY1 For You" last week after three months of trying to get the city's housing authority to fix his ceiling with no luck. The station reached out to NYCHA and they sent inspectors to Peguero's apartment and fixed the leak and hole immediately.
From the
Daily News:
So far 2-year-old Dymond Salgado has called two city-run apartments home - and both were hazardous to her health.
The little Bronx girl got the scare of her short life Wednesday when a bedroom ceiling suddenly collapsed and showered her with debris and plaster teeming with water bugs and centipedes.
This happened just five days after Dymond's family were moved out of another apartment in the same Bronx building because the little girl contracted lead poisoning.
From
NY1:
Tenants living at 803 West 180th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan say the building's leaky roof is literally caving in on them.
Tenants say the rotten roof has been a problem for over six years and the landlord has simply patched up the problem without ever really fixing it.
Jabari Donawa has the most severe case in the building, as paint and plaster hang from his water-stained ceiling.
NY1 reached out to Aragona Management Group, and the landlord claims when they had problems with the roof it was repaired by a roofing company. He also said about 90 percent of the issues were fixed after he went to go to court to be allowed access to the apartments.
Tenants, however, say they always allowed access when they were given advance notice.
Meanwhile, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development cited the building with 231 violations, for everything from roof issues to lead paint violations. HPD made repairs for immediately hazardous violations on 15 occasions for more than $15,000, and the costs were been placed as a lien on the property.
The station asked Aragona Management about the violations, and the landlord would only say they are in a voluntary repair program with the city to remove old and recent violations.
From
NY1:
A ceiling collapse in a subway station could cause some transit headaches for riders of the Number 1 subway line.
New York City Transit says debris on the track is forcing 1 trains to bypass the 181st Street station.
Crews are looking into the collapse. No injuries have been reported.
