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#Brooklyn building crumbles in violent collapse

#Brooklyn building crumbles in violent collapse

July 1, 2020 | 5:09pm | Updated July 1, 2020 | 6:04pm

A three-story Brooklyn building collapsed Wednesday afternoon, leaving a massive pile of rubble and a street strewn with debris.

The building at the corner of Court and Union streets in Carroll Gardens, which housed a gym, came crashing down at around 4:30 p.m. in the tony neighborhood.

Police said that the building – home to Body Elite Gym for the past 36 years – was unoccupied at the time of the collapse.

There were no immediate injuries reported, but police were using K9 units to search the wreckage all the same.

Carroll Gardens resident Vincenza Rizzuto, 35, who was nearby at a traffic light on Carroll and Court streets, said she heard the collapse.

“It was a huge boom and then people screamed and smoke was all over,” Rizzuto said, adding, “It felt like the ground shook.”

“It was the loudest boom or bang I ever heard,” said Rizzuto, who quickly called 911. It almost sounded like something exploded.”

The building had been under construction and scaffolding had been up on the Union Street side.

A partial stop work order was issued at the building on June 10 for a construction violation related to three construction workers involved in masonry demolition, according to the city’s Department of Buildings.

City records say that a roughly 20-foot by 15-foot masonry brick wall had been “dangerously bulging over public sidewalk. No protection provided.”

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Robert Alimena, 58, who has owned the gym since it opened, told The Post that the building’s landlord was having cosmetic brick and stucco work done on the exterior of the building.

“There was nobody in the building,” Alimena said, noting that the gym – which takes up all three floors of the building – had been closed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Alimena said he was in “total shock” by the collapse.

“I don’t even know what to say. I’m looking at the pictures and I’m like, ‘wow,’” said the longtime gym owner.

“The good news is as far as we know, no one was in the building, so my people are good,” Alimena said. “At this point whether anyone was walking by the building when this came down.”

Liz DiMartino, who owns Brownstone Real Estate, across the street from the building said, “We just heard a rumble” as the building was coming down.

“There was really no warning. Everything just kind of whited out for a few minutes and then the building was down,” she said.

The gym – which takes up all three floors of the building — had been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

DiMartino added, “I’m just thanking God the gym was closed.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s outgoing spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said the mayor has been briefed on the situation.

Carroll Gardens was previously rocked by a freak building collapse in 2012 when the exterior wall of a four-story brownstone on Carroll Street fell down.

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