The lower Manhattan garage that collapsed Tuesday afternoon, killing one worker and injuring five others, has a checkered history of building code violations, including for “loose” and “defective” concrete, according to city property records.
Structural defects were known at the century-old garage at 57 Ann St. going back twenty years, when the Long Island-based owner was hit with an $800 fine in 2003 for “hazardous” failure to maintain the building. City inspectors wrote of cracks and other deterioration in the concrete on the building’s first floor, citing “missing concrete covering steel beams” and “defective concrete with exposed rear cracks.”
