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MANHATTAN PARKING GARAGE PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR EXPOSED CRACKS BEFORE COLLAPSE

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Updated 6 minutes ago
Kristin Thorne has more on the open violations against the Lower Manhattan
parking garage that collapsed.
LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A dangerously unstable Lower Manhattan parking garage
will be carefully taken down as investigators search for the cause of its
collapse, sending dozens of cars plummeting and killing one worker.

The garage had dozens of violations dating back decades. Four of those
violations are still open.

The building first started to be used as a parking structure in 1957 and the
owner has been issued dozens of violations since.

Four of those violations are still open and have not been resolved - even though
they were issued years ago.

They range from not having a proper fire exit in a stairwell back in 2013 to
another for having broken and defective stairs in 2009. The list also includes a
violation for having defective exit lighting in 2003.

And that same year, the building owner was cited for missing concrete on the
steel beams on the first floor and exposed rear cracks. That violation from 20
years ago is still listed as open.

The building department's website does not specify whether the owner filed a
certificate of correction with the department, which the owner was required to
do.



In all four cases, city records show the owner paid the fines - a total of
$2,500, but the DOB website does not detail whether the violations were ever
corrected.

Just last year New York City strengthened its code around parking garage
inspections.

"The City Council passed a law that stated that the obligation to do these
inspections through an engineer must be carried out by the owners of the
property," Mayor Eric Adams said. "It's the law, they have to abide by the law
and there's an investigation into exactly what happened here."

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More than 50 cars were parked on the roof, which collapsed into the rest of the
structure. Gas tanks and electric vehicles in the debris are also complicating
the deconstruction process.

"Right now we are transitioning to how we safely take down that building and it
is incredibly complex," Commissioner of NYC Emergency Management Zach Iscol
said. "There are over 50 cars on the roof, the building is not structurally
sound, you think about hazardous materials that are in that garage, gas tanks,
fluids, further complicated by the fact that there are potentially electric
vehicles in that garage."

Multiple agencies including DOB, HPD, NYCOEM, NYPD, FDNY, MTA and others are
working together to safety demolish the building and remove the vehicles.



Four patients were treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital Downtown and
Bellevue Hospital. The FDNY said it appears most of the the patients were
treated and released.

The deceased garage worker is still in the rubble.

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