{"id":19254,"date":"2020-07-02T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/brooklyn-building-crumbles-in-violent-collapse\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:09:00","slug":"brooklyn-building-crumbles-in-violent-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brooklyn-building-crumbles-in-violent-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"#Brooklyn building crumbles in violent collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 1, 2020 |<\/span> 5:09pm |<\/span> Updated July 1, 2020 | 6:04pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n A three-story Brooklyn building collapsed Wednesday afternoon, leaving a massive pile of rubble and a street strewn with debris.<\/p>\n

The building at the corner of Court and Union streets in Carroll Gardens, which housed a gym, came crashing down at around 4:30 p.m. in the tony neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Police said that the building \u2013 home to Body Elite Gym for the past 36 years \u2013 was unoccupied at the time of the collapse.<\/p>\n

There were no immedia<\/a>te injuries reported, but police were using K9 units to search the wreckage all the same.<\/p>\n

Carroll Gardens resident Vincenza Rizzuto, 35, who was nearby at a traffic light on Carroll and Court streets, said she heard the collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge boom and then people screamed and smoke was all over,\u201d Rizzuto said, adding, \u201cIt felt like the ground shook.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the loudest boom or bang I ever heard,\u201d said Rizzuto, who quickly called 911. It almost sounded like something exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The building had been under construction and scaffolding had been up on the Union Street side.<\/p>\n

A partial stop work order was issued at the building on June 10 for a construction violation related to three construction workers involved in masonry demolition, according to the city\u2019s Department of Buildings.<\/p>\n

City records say that a roughly 20-foot by 15-foot masonry brick wall had been \u201cdangerously bulging over public sidewalk. No protection provided.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert Alimena, 58, who has owned the gym since it opened, told The Post that the building\u2019s landlord was having cosmetic brick and stucco work done on the exterior of the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nobody in the building,\u201d Alimena said, noting that the gym \u2013 which takes up all three floors of the building \u2013 had been closed due to the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n

Alimena said he was in \u201ctotal shock\u201d by the collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say. I\u2019m looking at the pictures and I\u2019m like, \u2018wow,\u2019\u201d said the longtime gym owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news<\/a> is as far as we know, no one was in the building, so my people are good,\u201d Alimena said. \u201cAt this point whether anyone was walking by the building when this came down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liz DiMartino, who owns Brownstone Real Estate, across the street from the building said, \u201cWe just heard a rumble\u201d as the building was coming down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was really no warning. Everything just kind of whited out for a few minutes and then the building was down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The gym \u2013 which takes up all three floors of the building \u2014 had been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

DiMartino added, \u201cI\u2019m just thanking God the gym was closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s outgoing spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said the mayor has been briefed on the situation.<\/p>\n

Carroll Gardens was previously rocked by a freak building collapse in 2012 when the exterior wall of a four-story brownstone on Carroll Street fell down.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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