Call the Buildings Dept on shoddy construction

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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