Some NYC garages partially closed by buildings after deadly collapse

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April 28, 2023 | 19:31
The city Buildings Department found such serious structural problems at four parking garages after last week̵[ads1]7;s fatal collapse that it immediately ordered them partially or completely closed, officials said Friday.
The significant problems were discovered during a sweep launched after the Ann Street structure in the financial district collapsed on April 18, crushing one person to death and injuring five more.
“Following the building collapse in Lower Manhattan last week, the DOB immediately began reviewing records of structures with parking facilities, to conduct targeted enforcement checks of similar structures with potential safety concerns or with outstanding DOB-issued violations around the city,” spokesman Andrew Rudansky said in a statement .
Inspectors hit the garage at 225 Rector Place in Manhattan’s Battery Park City with a partial eviction order after they discovered that many of the concrete slab reinforcements were extensively corroded.
The garage is under a 25-story apartment building, but the DOB says it found no structural problems that would force the evacuation of the entire structure.
In Chinatown, the DOB also ordered partial clearance of the Manhattan garage at 50 Bayard St. after inspectors found excessively cracked and peeling concrete and several steel beams that were heavily rusted and deteriorated.
That garage is also at the bottom of an eight-story apartment building, to which the DOB gave a clean bill of health.
The other two garages are across the East River in Brooklyn.
At 2781 Stillwell Ave. at Coney Island, the DOB determined that the two-story building was in such disrepair that it ordered the entire structure abandoned and asked the building’s owner to hire an engineer for a more complete evaluation of what repairs would be needed.
The fourth garage, at 429 12th St. in Park Slope, was also in terrible condition, the city said. Engineers found “structurally compromised and extensively corroded slabs and columns in localized areas of the building.” They also found parts of the slab on the second floor and the vehicle ramp was “in a deteriorated condition”. It was ordered partially cleared.
In all, the Buildings Department said its inspectors and engineers hit 78 parking garages across the Big Apple that had unprecedented serious violations of city safety codes in the wake of the Lower Manhattan collapse.
Documents obtained by The Post showed the Ann Street garage had a long history of significant structural problems, including that the connection joint between a support column and a roof beam had developed cracks, as had several of the walls — including some that were 11 feet long — and needed significant upgrades to comply with the city’s fire code.
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