{"id":252923,"date":"2026-06-02T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:31:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bricks-fall-from-roof-after-partial-wall-collapse-in-gravesend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252923\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bricks Fall From Roof After Partial Wall Collapse In Gravesend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Firefighters responded to a partial wall collapse at 1668 West 6th St. in Gravesend, after bricks were reported falling from the roof around midnight.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Part of a short wall along the edge of the roof had collapsed and fallen onto the roof surface, according to the Department of Buildings, damaging what appeared to be a Verizon antenna.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries were reported, according to the FDNY. Tenants from one apartment were temporarily evacuated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Several residents said they were unaware that anything had happened until firefighters arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI only heard a little bit,\u201d one tenant said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Inspectors with the DOB issued a violation to the property owner for failing to maintain the structure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The owner has been directed to hire a professional engineer to evaluate the building\u2019s stability and submit a report to the Department of Buildings.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">City officials have also required the installation of a sidewalk shed to protect pedestrians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters responded to a partial wall collapse at 1668 West 6th St. in Gravesend, after bricks were reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-252923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252923","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=252923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}