NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- Fifteen parking structures have been issued vacate orders by the city Department of Buildings since last month's deadly garage collapse in Manhattan, the agency said Thursday.
Building inspectors found cracks in walls and ceilings, corroded and rusted beams, exposed rebar and other violations during the sweeps, which are ongoing.
As of Thursday morning, a total of 187 facilities have been inspected citywide since the collapse at 57 Ann St. on April 18 killed a worker and injured five others.
MANHATTAN
• 14 South William Street, Financial District
• 310 West 39th Street, Midtown
• 220 East 117th Street, East Harlem
• 160 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village
• 434 East 80th Street, Upper East Side
• 228 East 9th Street, East Village
• 148 Madison Street, Lower East Side
• 225 Rector Place, Battery Park City
• 50 Bayard Street, Chinatown
• 143 West 40th Street, Times Square
BROOKLYN
• 201 Brighton 1 Road, Brighton Beach
• 1368 Fulton Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant
• 2781 Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island
• 429 12th Street, Park Slope
THE BRONX
• 2621 Aqueduct Avenue, Kingsbridge Heights
The impacted buildings include commercial garages as well as residential buildings with garages.
The DOB said many of the vacate orders were partial vacate orders, meaning only a portion of the building has to be closed. However, the department issued full vacate orders at some buildings that had "fallen into deep disrepair, to the point that they were no longer safe to occupy."
Most of the locations were targeted for sweeps because they had open DOB-issued violations indicating the potential for similar conditions to what was found at the 98-year-old Ann Street garage before it partially collapsed, officials said.
"As we continue our targeted parking structure enforcement sweeps, garage owners and New Yorkers should know that that DOB is taking swift action to protect the public from unsafe buildings," the department said in a statement, adding they'd "use every tool at our disposal to protect the public."
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