Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark says a landlord of is accused of partially demolishing a Williamsbridge building with eight children inside after lying on a Department of Buildings permit request.<\/p>\n
Joel Grunbaum, 31, of Brooklyn, was indicted Wednesday for allegedly claiming that 716 East 215 St. was unoccupied while making renovation plans in 2022. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Grunbaum claimed the building would remain unoccupied during construction, alteration or demolition, despite allegedly knowing that a tenant was living in an apartment on the third floor with her eight children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n
This lie granted him the permit to start demolishing the walls and ceilings of the vacant apartments.<\/p>\n
The construction made the building unstable and prompted the DOB to issue a vacate order on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n
“That omission allowed the landlord to begin demolition without adequate protections for the tenants, making the building unsafe and resulting in a vacate order that forced the tenants \u2013 including children \u2013 out in the middle of the night in a building where the public hallways had no electricity,” said Department of Investigation Commissioner Nadia I. Shihata.<\/p>\n
Grunbaum is charged with offering a false instrument and is due back in court on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n
“We will not tolerate anyone putting tenants in danger during building construction,” said Clark. “Fortunately, no one was injured.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark says a landlord of is accused of partially demolishing a Williamsbridge building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254504","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=254504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}