found unconscious and unresponsive<\/a> on the roof of 3310 Avenue H in Flatlands shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday, and had been carrying groceries across the roof because the lift on his side of the building was on the fritz. <\/p>\nNeighbors and sources said Everet Goldberg was lugging groceries across his roof when he fell and died. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who live on the top floors, the fifth or sixth floor, if you have groceries or something, it\u2019s easier to take the opposite side elevator to the roof, cross over and come down,\u201d neighbor Luis Irizarry said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith regular, non-freezing weather, there\u2019s no issue,\u201d said Irizarry, 43. \u201cBut with all the cold and the snow from a couple of weeks ago, it\u2019s pretty dangerous up there. All the snow that fell down is now ice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have not officially released the cause or the circumstances surrounding Goldberg\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
In a note to tenants Monday, building management expressed condolences for Goldberg\u2019s death, noting that \u201cit seems most likely that he fell and died due to the extreme cold temperatures outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take this opportunity to remind all residents that there is clear signage at the bulkhead level of each stairwell advising that entry to the stairs at the bulkhead level is not permitted,\u201d the note said, \u201cand that no one should be going up on the building roof at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n
A broken elevator at the Flatlands apartment buiding forced tenants to climb to the roof to get to their side. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
Police responded to 3310 Avenue H around 10 a.m. Saturday and found a man unresponsive on the roof. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
Sources said Goldberg parked his car outside the building and lugged his groceries up a working elevator on another section of the building.<\/p>\n
But he never made it to his door, and instead lay on the roof for hours before he was found. <\/p>\n
He then started across the roof to his end of the building with the intention of walking down the staircase and into his apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no alarms to go onto the roof,\u201d Irizarry said. \u201cWe do have a guard who works nights, and I always assumed they did some type of rounds, but clearly not because he was there overnight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
City building department records show no open violations at the building, but the owners have been hit with more than 100 complaints, with a slew related to the building\u2019s elevator, since 1985.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said elevator malfunctions were routine over the years at the Flatlands apartment building. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe elevator is broken and it does this every other 5 months,\u201d one tenant complained in January 2024. \u201cI\u2019m old. I have medical problems and this is becoming a lot. I can\u2019t walk up the stairs due to my health, and every time someone comes to fix it, it takes 5 months and then it broke down for 2 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The record does not identify the tenant, but shows that the elevator was inspected two months later and the problem was apparently fixed.<\/p>\n
The building\u2019s landlord could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chronically broken elevator forced an 81-year-old Brooklyn man to the roof of his apartment building \u2014 where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,1015,2823,10886,899,57,9,56,63,65,64,104,58],"class_list":["post-128041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-deaths","tag-department-of-buildings","tag-elevators","tag-extreme-weather","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-police","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}