MTA officials work to restore Clark Street subway station after St. George Hotel overhang collapse
Video captured shows the moment a15 x 20-foot concrete and steel awning came smashing into the sidewalk around 7 a.m.
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Brooklyn Heights residents are still reeling from a sudden awning collapse on Sunday that shut down the Clark Street subway station.
Video captured shows the moment a15 x 20-foot concrete and steel awning came smashing into the sidewalk around 7 a.m.
Representatives from The Department of Buildings say the concrete and steel beams supporting the beams were rusted and had a history of “poor maintenance.”
The awning is a part of the St. George Hotel, which opened over a century ago.
While no one was hurt, the damage left a residual feeling of shock among neighbors.
"To think a part of it could just fall off,” said resident Julie Sahni. “People are in shock."
City inspectors who checked the other entrance on Clark Street hours found the same safety problems found on the Henry Street side.
The Department of Buildings met with the building owners on Monday to discuss both the Clark and Henry streets awnings. The department brought a professional engineer to facilitate the removal of the collapsed awning on Henry Street.
The Department of Buildings tells News 12it plans to provide emergency shoring underneath the awning on Clark Street to prevent a similar collapse.
In a press conference, MTA President Demetrius Crichlow said they reached out to the building owners before and demanded they be more responsive to open complaints.
“We reached out to the owner to get them to be more responsive,” Crichlow said. “Our real estate team has issued them a letter to be more responsive, but that the extent that's our responsibility goes. We do not have not maintenance responsibility."
Roders are being told to use the Borough Hall station as the MTA seeks to provide “safe service.” It hopes to have the Clark Street station up and running “as soon as possible.”
