A 64 year old Brooklyn grandmother was walking on East 55th Street in Old Mill Basin with her two young nephews when the sidewalk collapsed. The woman, Faye Drod, fell in a 4-5 foot deep hole and was trapped by slabs of concrete on top of her. Yikes! Her 3 and 5 year old nephews were able to avoid the hole by grabbing onto a fence - they are going to have some crazy nightmares!
The FDNY had to remove the concrete before lifting her up; one firefighter went into the hole and joked with her, "I noticed she had a pocketbook down there and bags of groceries ... I said a hell of a night to be going to get groceries and she kinda chuckled at that." Drod is recovering from her leg injuries at Kings County Hospital.
Here's an explanation about sinklholes; there was a sinkhole in Midtown last year and a water main break earlier this year collapsed a street in Bay Ridge, taking an SUV with it.
