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Yesterday, a building at the southeast corner of East Houston and Mulberry Street collapsed, causing street closures while the Fire Department and Department of Buildings inspected. The NY Times describes it as a partial collapse and, luckily, no one was injured. Workers have been preparing the building for demolition, but a stop work order had been issued two weeks ago (the DOB required "bracing and shoring" of the building).
Curbed has been following the progress of the building from decrepit structure to new luxury condo - it was even used for FDNY training in February! The building used to house a bodega-deli on the first floor (and there was wall space reserved for the Tats Cru to put up graffiti-advertising), and is a few doors down from the bar Botanica and Time's Up! on Houston.
And earlier this week, a building being prepared for demolition collapsed in Harlem.
Photograph of the building collapse by BrianVan on Flickr
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I am starting to wonder who is doing the demo on these buidlings. It appears it is people who have no idea what they are doing.
actually, they were just performing asbestos remediation on the building last week prior to demo. I am wondering if they finished before half of the building fell over.
i live just down the street on mulberry, and they spent all last night tearing the building down. my apartment was shaking all night.
Over the last week and a half I've seen the huge crack in the Houston side of the building widen more and more. I stopped in and mentioned it to the times up folk, who're two doors down, but they'd never looked at it.