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New York City Lawyers Helping Building Collapse Victims Nobody ever expects a building to collapse, whether it is under construction, finished, in use, or about to be demolished. A collapse can be total or partial, and in either case the results can be catastrophic...
One man was injured in a partial building collapse in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The accident took place in the Murray Hill neighborhood, at 205 East 38th Street near Third Avenue. Without warning, around noon, bricks began to tumble down from the facade of...
On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, residents in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn were shocked when a three-story building on the corner of Court and Union Streets suddenly collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Jacinto Salazar, 52, was left injured and debris littered the...
On the morning of October 21, 2019, two construction workers were injured, one fatally, after a wall collapsed at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue on the Lower East Side. Officials from the Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. At around 10:00am,...
In what the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) is calling a "preventable tragedy," a construction worker and father of five named Segundo Huerta was killed in a building collapse accident that occurred in the Norwood section of the Bronx on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. In...
Block O'Toole & Murphy is a construction accident law firm that has been involved in many significant building collapse cases, so we are very carefully following the facts of last Friday morning's tragic collapse at 25 West 38th Street in Manhattan as they...
Illegal building work is to blame in a Brooklyn building façade collapse that left a man with a fractured skull. On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at approximately 3:00 p.m., Oumar Ba was walking by a Crown Heights grocery store when video surveillance captured debris and...
A devastating accident occurred on the dreary morning of December 17, 2019, when 60-year-old Erica Tishman was tragically killed after she was struck by debris that fell from a building façade in Times Square. Department of Buildings (DOB) Engineers continue to...
In a grave turn of events, a construction worker lost his life on Thursday after the roof of a new building collapsed in Woodbury, New York. CBS reports that the accident occurred around 9 a.m. at the Jericho Water District Facility, located on Stillwell Lane in...
Three days after the deadly collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan, cleanup crews are still working to clear massive amounts of debris from the scene. Due to the extent of the damage, the cleanup process can reportedly take up to three weeks. The collapse,...
