Swallowed!
Work vehicle collapses into massive sink hole in Park Slope
Police cordoned off the sinkhole that gobbled up a truck in Park Slope. Photo by Todd Maisel
BY TODD MAISEL
A fi ve-ton construction
truck collapsed into a large
sink hole in Park Slope on Nov.
21, according to authorities.
The massive water main
construction truck — carrying
tools and supplies for Liberty
Water and Sewer — collapsed
into the nine-by-seven foot hole
in the street at 15th Street and
Fourth Avenue at around 11
am.
The roadway collapsed due
to a leak on a private pipe belonging
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— just feet away — according
to reps with the Department of
Environmental Planning.
No gas mains were affected
by the collapse, and no one was
reported injured, Fire Department
offi cials said.
House of D to close in January
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The city is reportedly
gearing up to shut down the
Brooklyn House of Detention
early next year to pave the
way for an expansion of the
Boerum Hill holding facility.
Offi cials want to move inmates
and corrections staff
out of the Atlantic Avenue jail
by the end of January 2020
as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s
$8.7 billion plan to close
the beleaguered Rikers Island
jail complex and build
four borough-based facilities,
according to a report by the
New York Daily News.
The building’s roughly 400
occupants will be moved to
other borough facilities —unless
they have specifi c needs
that can only be met at Rikers
— and the 535 Department
of Corrections staff will be
reassigned, agency spokeswoman
Latima Johnson said
in an email.
The city previously closed
down the George Motchan
Detention Center on the island
last year.
De Blasio’s plan, which
City Council approved in October,
aims to close the Rikers
Island jail complex by
2026 and move its inmates to
smaller facilities sited for all
boroughs except Staten Island.
The city plans to raze the
House of Detention and erect
a 29-story, 295-foot, 886-bed
jail facility, replacing the current
11-story 170-foot building
housing 815 beds.
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