NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — A Porsche drove over the side of a New York City parking garage situated atop a shopping center late Sunday morning, and the car's driver is nowhere to be found.
The Department of Buildings received a call reporting the incident at the River Plaza Shopping Center, located at 40 West 225th St. in Marble Hill, at 11:21 a.m. and the agency sent inspectors to conduct a structural stability check on the building.
The Porsche drove off the side of the single-story building, and a preliminary DOB investigation determined that it “impacted the side wall of the rooftop parking area, falling 20 feet to an unoccupied fenced-in area below.”
A portion of the wall was damaged in the incident and also fell to the ground, building officials said.
According to the DOB’s investigation at the scene, there is no evidence that the building nor parking deck are structurally unstable. A partial vacate order was issued impacting the southeast corner of the deck, where the car fell.
Citizen App footage shows a hole in the wall of the parking deck, and photos from the scene from the New York Post show the car wrecked upside down with multiple piles of cash and a cellphone sitting on its underbelly.
Authorities said that while the discovery wasn’t made until later in the morning, it could have happened as early as 5 a.m.
The DOB ordered the property owners to barricade the area and block it off from the rest of the parking deck, and to get a structural engineer’s report for the building to submit for department review.
The driver of the vehicle was nowhere to be found, and police are looking at security cameras and the Porsche’s license plate to try and locate the motorist.