A Westchester County man says dashcam video disputes a parking garage’s claim that his car was damaged before he left it there.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Zambrano says he parked his car at a garage at 85 E. 158th St., near Yankee Stadium, and dropped it off in perfect condition.<\/p>\n
When he returned, he says he found a flat tire and damage to the front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
“I’m just trying to put some awareness out there that if you choose this parking garage, you’re potentially putting your property at risk of damage,” Zambrano said.<\/p>\n
Zambrano says garage workers told him the damage was already there when he arrived \u2014 something he disputes.<\/p>\n
“He was the one that told me that I had a flat tire, came with a flat,” Zambrano said. “There’s no way I drove from Westchester County to the Bronx with a flat tire.”<\/p>\n
Suspicious, Zambrano reviewed his dashcam footage, which he says shows the damage occurred while the car was in the garage’s care.<\/p>\n
Zambrano heard one of the workers speaking in Spanish, admitting that they popped the tire.<\/p>\n
“I saw the tire popped on a screw, but they were going to say that it came that way,” Zambrano said as he translated the workers words in English.<\/p>\n
Zambrano says he showed the video to the garage manager, who offered limited compensation. According to Zambrano, the manager provided $100 in cash and refunded the cost of parking, but he says it did not cover the damage.<\/p>\n
“That doesn’t cover even the tire,” Zambrano said.<\/p>\n
He says his biggest frustration is not the damage itself, but what he describes as a lack of accountability.<\/p>\n
“If he would have approached me with a different kind of energy, it would have been a completely different ballgame,” Zambrano said. “But they took a different route. They tried to do it in a schemey way.”<\/p>\n
Zambrano says he is speaking out to raise awareness and prevent similar situations from happening to others.<\/p>\n
News 12 contacted the manager of the parking garage, who said in part, that he did help fix the tire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Westchester County man says dashcam video disputes a parking garage’s claim that his car was damaged before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-264406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264406","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=264406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}