{"id":316165,"date":"2026-08-07T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:28:49","slug":"vacate-order-issued-after-astoria-market-ceiling-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316165\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacate order issued after Astoria market ceiling collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City inspectors ordered an Astoria supermarket vacated after part of its ceiling collapsed Thursday, injuring four people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-by-60-foot swath of City Fresh Market\u2019s ceiling fell to the floor inside the grocery store on Broadway around 4:30 p.m., the FDNY and the city\u2019s Department of Buildings said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vacate_order_queens_IMG_9384.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(Courtesy Kevin Barnes)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy Kevin Barnes)<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders transported two people with minor injuries to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Elmhurst, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people with injuries declined medical attention at the scene, the DOB said.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the unsafe conditions, the DOB said it issued a vacate order for the entire supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors also hit the building owner with a violation for failing to maintain the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The DOB has ordered the owner to hire a professional engineer to evaluate the building&#8217;s structural stability and submit a report before the property can be reoccupied.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the collapse remains under investigation. NY1 has reached out to the supermarket for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City inspectors ordered an Astoria supermarket vacated after part of its ceiling collapsed Thursday, injuring four people, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[387,25,297,576,9,24,12,63,308,122,124,123,27,142],"class_list":["post-316165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-erica-brosnan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316165","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=316165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}