Call the Buildings Dept on shoddy construction

pitu

this is awful

City Rushing Surprise Demolition, Residents of Landmark Bed-Stuy Block Claim
by Samuel Newhouse ([email protected]), 01-22-2010

BklynEagle wrote: ADAMS STREET – Over forty concerned residents were in Brooklyn Supreme Court Friday afternoon, trying to stop the city from demolishing two historic Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstones after a wall in the basement collapsed earlier this week.

A load-bearing wall that was shared by two homes, 329 and 331 Macdonough St., collapsed and broke a gas line during renovations in the basement on Wednesday morning at about 5 a.m.

Residents woke up to find their block packed with fire truck and the buildings were evacuated. But residents say they have not been allowed back into their homes, leaving them without change of clothes or access to their personal belongings.

The next day, representatives of the Department of Buildings (DOB) informed residents that the two buildings would have to be demolished on Friday

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http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=33132


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_bldgs_near_collapse_dsAQiYvGxNrY2UaslRCU3M#ixzz0dXoafnZ6

pitu

from the comments section of
http://www.bedstuyblog.com/

Contact local politicians please! If NY can give grants and tax breaks to millionaire developpers, surely there are funds to help these people stay in their homes.

This very conveniently is happening over the weekend, so shady.

Al Vann
District Office Address
613-619 Throop Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11216

District Office Phone
718-919-0740 or 718-919-0741 or 718-919-7042

Velmanette Montgomery
District Office
30 Third Avenue, Room 1100, 11th Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel: (718) 643-6140
Fax: (718) 237-4137