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Joe Marino, Craig McCarthy and Katherine Donlevy
One person was killed and multiple others trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene at 35-37 Ann Street shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman get can be heard screaming, “Get out!”
“At this time the building is completely unstable,” Eric Adams said during a press conference at the scene.
A total of six people were hurt — four were taken to the hospital, one person died and one refused medical attention, according to fire officials.
All six had been working inside the building when it collapsed around 4:10 p.m.
“There was a worker who was trapped on the upper floor. He was conscious and alert and moving around calling us,” John Esposito, the FDNY chief of operations, said.
“He just couldn’t get down. We were able to put firefighters up there in the building to take him down across the roof of another building.”
Officials believe all workers are accounted for, but are continuing to investigate.
“We’re continuing to do searches. There are some cars in there that are crushed. We’re trying to see if we can get up close to make sure there’s nobody in those cars,” Esposito added.
The building had active violations dating back to 2003, NYC Department of Building Acting Commissioner Kaz Vilenchik said. There were also active permits on the building, one of which was related to electrical work, but the building was not under construction.
The collapse affected the entire four-story building, with some cars plummeting to the cellar.
The building continued crumbling as the FDNY initiated its search, forcing firefighters to evacuate the building.
The FDNY sent in drones to survey the garage as well as their Boston Dynamics robotic dog.
“Thank God we had the robotic dog that was able to go in the building. This is ideally what we talk about not sending a human being inside a building as unstable,” Adams said.
The New York City Sheriff’s Office uses the deck to park their cars while working at the Manhattan office.
“We accounted for all our personnel,” Sheriff Anthony Miranda told The Post, adding his office had four cars parked there.
A 22-year-old who works next door, but declined to give their name, said the collapse “came out of nowhere.”
“We heard a loud noise and we knew it wasn’t safe,” they said. “We looked down from the window and saw a lot of smoke coming so we figured something went down but we obviously don’t know what it was. Everyone just started rushing.”
“There wasn’t as big of a shake as an earthquake I would say. But it almost felt like a lift or an elevator just went down and collapsed.”
Pace University, located nearby the collapse, canceled all of its classes for the rest of the day.
Student Jadess Speller, 19, said he heard what sounded like an “explosion” while he was on class on the 14th floor of a nearby building.
“There was just a huge boom, and I was like, ‘What the hell was that?’ We saw smoke rising, heard a man screaming, a woman screaming. There was debris and we saw cars pilled on top of each other.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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