1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse

[Doc7505]

1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse​

1 person killed, five injured in NYC parking garage collapse

“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.

nypost.com

18 Apr 2023 ~~ By Joe Marino, Craig McCarthy and Katherine Donlevy

One person was killed and multiple others trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene at 35-37 Ann Street shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman is heard screaming, “Get out!”
“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.
~Snip~
The building had active violations dating back to 2003, NYC Department of Building Acting Commissioner Kaz Vilenchik said. There were also active permits on the building, one of which was related to electrical work, but the building was not under construction.
The collapse affected the entire four-story building, with some cars plummeting to the cellar.
The building continued crumbling as the FDNY initiated its search, forcing firefighters to evacuate the building.
The FDNY sent in drones to survey the garage as well as their Boston Dynamics robotic dog.


Commentary:
Living in lower Manhattan this is where New York City originated. There are many old buildings. This is one of the buildings built in the 1800s and they decided to stock cars on every level when the ceilings and ground floors could not hold the weight.
When you consider that the average EV weighs 500 to 700 pounds more than a as powered vehicle, you can expect more disasters of this type to occur in the future.
19th Century buildings are not designed for these types of loading.
You don’t have to be an engineer to understand why parking structures have ‘marked’ parking spaces, these structures have a certain weight threshold and were never built to withstand the weight of packing cars in it like sardines over and over again weakening the entire structure. Clearly the high taxes collected in NYC/state aren’t being spent for regular structural maintenance or on the cities infrastructure!

 

[skye]

It collapsed like a house of cards

Parking garage collapses in NYC

The city is literally falling apart. https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/parking-garage-collapses-in-nycs-financial-district-video/

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[MarathonMike]

Very sad. The city was already collapsing into lawless violence thanks to the Democratic Party, and now it's collapsing literally.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse​

1 person killed, five injured in NYC parking garage collapse

“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.

nypost.com

18 Apr 2023 ~~ By Joe Marino, Craig McCarthy and Katherine Donlevy

One person was killed and multiple others trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene at 35-37 Ann Street shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman is heard screaming, “Get out!”
“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.
~Snip~
The building had active violations dating back to 2003, NYC Department of Building Acting Commissioner Kaz Vilenchik said. There were also active permits on the building, one of which was related to electrical work, but the building was not under construction.
The collapse affected the entire four-story building, with some cars plummeting to the cellar.
The building continued crumbling as the FDNY initiated its search, forcing firefighters to evacuate the building.
The FDNY sent in drones to survey the garage as well as their Boston Dynamics robotic dog.


Commentary:
Living in lower Manhattan this is where New York City originated. There are many old buildings. This is one of the buildings built in the 1800s and they decided to stock cars on every level when the ceilings and ground floors could not hold the weight.
When you consider that the average EV weighs 500 to 700 pounds more than a as powered vehicle, you can expect more disasters of this type to occur in the future.
19th Century buildings are not designed for these types of loading.
You don’t have to be an engineer to understand why parking structures have ‘marked’ parking spaces, these structures have a certain weight threshold and were never built to withstand the weight of packing cars in it like sardines over and over again weakening the entire structure. Clearly the high taxes collected in NYC/state aren’t being spent for regular structural maintenance or on the cities infrastructure!

Sigh....never miss a chance to turn something as simple as lack of infrastructure funding into a political ramrod.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/parking-garage-collapse-new-york-lower-manhattan/index.html

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse​

1 person killed, five injured in NYC parking garage collapse

“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.

nypost.com

18 Apr 2023 ~~ By Joe Marino, Craig McCarthy and Katherine Donlevy

One person was killed and multiple others trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene at 35-37 Ann Street shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman is heard screaming, “Get out!”
“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.
~Snip~
The building had active violations dating back to 2003, NYC Department of Building Acting Commissioner Kaz Vilenchik said. There were also active permits on the building, one of which was related to electrical work, but the building was not under construction.
The collapse affected the entire four-story building, with some cars plummeting to the cellar.
The building continued crumbling as the FDNY initiated its search, forcing firefighters to evacuate the building.
The FDNY sent in drones to survey the garage as well as their Boston Dynamics robotic dog.


Commentary:
Living in lower Manhattan this is where New York City originated. There are many old buildings. This is one of the buildings built in the 1800s and they decided to stock cars on every level when the ceilings and ground floors could not hold the weight.
When you consider that the average EV weighs 500 to 700 pounds more than a as powered vehicle, you can expect more disasters of this type to occur in the future.
19th Century buildings are not designed for these types of loading.
You don’t have to be an engineer to understand why parking structures have ‘marked’ parking spaces, these structures have a certain weight threshold and were never built to withstand the weight of packing cars in it like sardines over and over again weakening the entire structure. Clearly the high taxes collected in NYC/state aren’t being spent for regular structural maintenance or on the cities infrastructure!

Buildings in NYC collapse all the time

If nyc ever had a significant earthquake a lot of buildings would collapse

 

[shockedcanadian]

That is a horrible way to die. We wake up every morning until we don't. No one on earth ever believes "I am going to die one day when a garage collapses on me"

 

[Polishprince]

Sigh....never miss a chance to turn something as simple as lack of infrastructure funding into a political ramrod.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/parking-garage-collapse-new-york-lower-manhattan/index.html

This was a privately owned parking garage, not publicly owned and funded "infrastructure".

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

This was a privately owned parking garage, not publicly owned and funded "infrastructure".

Perhaps you missed this comment from the OP. Are you saying that a privately held company fucked up here?
"Clearly the high taxes collected in NYC/state aren’t being spent for regular structural maintenance or on the cities infrastructure!".

 

[Polishprince]

Perhaps you missed this comment from the OP. Are you saying that a privately held company fucked up here?
"Clearly the high taxes collected in NYC/state aren’t being spent for regular structural maintenance or on the cities infrastructure!".

A private owner fucked up by not maintaining his property, the city fucked up by not doing their self appointed "inspection " work. With both those cases, its Liberal Greed. The parking lot owner was greedy for the fees being collected, it was a cash cow for the city for the parking taxes it generated.

 

[Doc7505]

This was a privately owned parking garage, not publicly owned and funded "infrastructure".

Most Parking lots in Manhattan are privately owned and are supposedly inspected yearly. Obviously, this lot was flagged for violations for the last 20 years and never closed. Somebody was paid off.
The floor loading was exceeded tremendously for this collapse to happen.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

A private owner fucked up by not maintaining his property, the city fucked up by not doing their self appointed "inspection " work. With both those cases, its Liberal Greed. The parking lot owner was greedy for the fees being collected, it was a cash cow for the city for the parking taxes it generated.

LOL. Sure. You run with that. A private business owner you just and righteous..righties hold up as bastions of a capitalistic nirvana....blame it on the city.
Typical conservative....FAIL!!

 

[DudleySmith]

I always assumed most of them were owned by mobsters.

 

[billyerock123]

Very sad. The city was already collapsing into lawless violence thanks to the Democratic Party, and now it's collapsing literally.

are you really this stupid ???

 

[Mr Natural]

are you really this stupid ???

They are that stupid and then some.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Those Robot dogs. ....awesome....LOLOL