NEW YORK — A woman was taken to a hospital after crashing through the floor of her apartment into the building’s basement.
City officials described the incident as a partial collapse and told WNBC that inspectors found a section of the bathroom floor in front of the shower and toilet in a first-floor apartment gave way, sending a woman down into the basement.
Neighbors told WCBS that the woman’s husband immediately jumped down after her, and described the victim as responsive as she was loaded into an ambulance.
Officials with New York’s Department of Buildings told WABC that their preliminary investigation shows a lack of proper maintenance led to the collapse. The DOB issued a citation to the building’s landlord for failure to maintain the building. The landlord was also ordered to hire an engineer and submit a report to the DOB about the structural stability of the floor in the rest of the apartment.
Residents were angry, with one tenant telling WNBC: “We’ve been telling the landlord and the super what all of the problems we’ve been facing in this building, they don’t fix nothing in the building.”
“I feel afraid because I have my son, my wife, and I don’t want the ceiling to fall on top of our head,” Jose Madera, another building resident, told WCBS.
The landlord did not offer a response to WNBC’s request for comment.
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