Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Breaking, and Shocking: Old House has Old, Badly Maintained Facade Fall Off

The wood-frame house at 341 Sackett Street took a lot of damage from the weekend/holiday storm and is now worse for the wear. From the Brooklyn Paper:

"“The storm knocked off [the wall],” said Tom Hassan, a resident of the building between Court and Clinton streets. “It happened all at once.”

The crack first appeared after the storm and expanded on Tuesday before splitting the facade in half, said Hanna Abuhamdeh, a relative of the building’s landlord who lives at the residence. There were no injuries."


Sackett Street was closed off until at least 9 pm last night, although there appeared to be no danger to anyone driving by.