Bronx building collapse is a warning of disasters likely to get ever more common
NY Post
We’ll see more incidents like Monday’s partial collapse of a 47-unit Bronx building as progressives make it impossible for building owners to make ends meet.
It’s everyone’s good fortune that no lives were lost: In August, the partial collapse of the century-old Manhattan parking garage left one dead and five others injured.
Another recent warning: the discovery of a gaping hole and falling concrete in another aged structure above an Amtrak tunnel, shutting down service to Albany.
New York City has lots of deteriorating buildings — and the left’s war on landlords prompts even more deferred maintenance.
The collapsed Bronx building’s owner has been hit with more than 100 housing code violations in recent years; city records show at least three tenant heating complaints in the last month.
COVID halted scheduled repairs in 2021, but the owner recently filed plans to bring the crumbling façade up to code.
