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And you thought you had it bad. Vehicles (usually cabs) crash into bagel shops but this is someone's home. The pics look surreal. Glad no one was killed or seriously injured.
The MTA bus that crashed into a Brooklyn townhouse on Monday remains stuck in place more than 24 hours later, after city officials determined that the vehicle had compromised the building's stability.
The B49 bus smashed into a home on the corner of Lincoln Road and Bedford Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens shortly before 2 p.m. on Monday. At least 16 people were treated for injuries, none of them critically. The city had planned to tow the bus on Monday, but were reportedly forced to postpone the removal due to concerns over the building's stability.
Reached by phone, one resident of 174 Lincoln Road said that all of the building's tenants had been ordered to vacate, and were awaiting further information about emergency housing. "Everyone is out," the person, who declined to provide their name, told Gothamist. "We're waiting to hear what happens next."
Dozens of New Yorkers stopped to gawk at the stuck bus on Tuesday afternoon, as piles of bricks spilled from the cracked facade and pieces of the bus's exterior remain littered on the street. Contractors were also working to erect a wooden perimeter around the bus. "It's security for pedestrians," one worker told Gothamist. "God forbid someone tries to walk into it and they hurt themselves and it’s a liability."
The timeline for removing the bus remains uncertain.
The bus will not be kep there forever. They're going to build structural reinforcements around the bus to support the building so that the building will not collapse when they eventually pull the bus out
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The bus will not be kep there forever. They're going to build structural reinforcements around the bus to support the building so that the building will not collapse when they eventually pull the bus out
Yes, and I would not be surprised if next year the home owner gets a higher property tax evaluation assessment from the City govt. Lmao. Deblasio's NYC.
A spokesperson for the Department of Buildings said the bus had structurally damaged an internal load-bearing masonry wall, as well as the first-floor and basement exterior, and that the building was no longer safe to occupy.
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