Bed-Stuy Building Collapses On Marcy Avenue

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A vacant building on Marcy Avenue sagged, leaned and finally popped on Tuesday, according to city officials and news reports.

The empty building at 592 Marcy Ave. was reported as a hazard to the Department of Buildings on Monday by a neighbor who noticed it had begun to slant, records show.

“The building is leaning,” the concerned neighbor said in a complaint filed with the city. “I was told an emergency will be responding and no one has came [sic].”

Other residents then called 911 on Tuesday morning around 8:30 a.m. to report that part of the building’s facade had fallen and a wall had cracked, according to the FDNY.

Hours later, a Bed-Stuy resident posted an Instagram photo of the building with a completely collapsed facade:

The man who took the photo, Hunter Fairstone, told Gothamist that the building's facade collapsed around 1:30 p.m. (The FDNY was unable to confirm this info to Patch.)

The Department of Buildings was not immediately available to comment. However, a DOB spokesman told DNAinfo, which first reported the story, that crews were on scene assessing the building’s stability Tuesday afternoon.

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