Alexis Santiago had been dreaming of giving her son the perfect Christmas.<\/p>\n
But those dreams came crashing down when the ceiling in her Unionport apartment collapsed, causing a pipe to burst and flooding the place she’s called home since May.<\/p>\n
Santiago says she had been complaining about a leaking, damaged ceiling since she moved in. She says the water got worse, causing her to worry for her child’s safety.<\/p>\n
“My son’s gifts got destroyed, his bed, and I just bought him this new mattress. Everything is just destroyed,” she said.<\/p>\n
Santiago says she is focused on keeping her son safe and trying to hold onto what’s left of their Christmas.<\/p>\n
“We might live in the Bronx. It might not be the greatest area. But this is our home. We deserve to be safe,” she says.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to building management and hasn’t heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexis Santiago had been dreaming of giving her son the perfect Christmas. But those dreams came crashing down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6521,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-75505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-ceiling-collapse","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\/75505","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=75505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}