Results tagged “wallcollapse”

Yesterday afternoon, a concrete wall collapsed into a pizza parlor at 2280 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 123rd Street yesterday afternoon, injuring 11 people. Construction was taking place at the lot next to the pizza parlor's five-story building, and the eatery was filled with bricks. The Daily News says the chunk of wall that collapsed was about 16' by 10' and that the injured were both pizza parlor customers and construction workers.

An exterior wall at 270 West 123rd Street in Harlem collapsed around 3:15 p.m. WCBS 2 reports the building was "partially under construction" and "appears to be a five-story walk-up with a pizza shop, Pizzaria 123, on the bottom floor." WABC 7 says that some pizzeria customers were temporarily trapped: "Workers were pouring concrete at a construction site when the wall collapsed into the pizzeria next door." Four people were injured; the extent of their injuries is not known.

A doctor who practices in NJ with admitting privileges at New York Presbyterian Hospital. His 94-year-old mother. Her $832,453 savings. And a wall collapse in Upper Manhattan. In a case Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau called "a mini-Astor case," Dr. Robin Motz was accused of stealing his mother's savings since 2003.