The owner of a Yonkers auto body shop says
they discovered their wall collapsed Friday morning.
Theresa Boulvin, the owner of P and T's Auto
Care, received a call from a next-door resident who usually parks her car
nearby that the shop's wall had collapsed.
"She called me in a panic. She said that
she had almost literally drove her car into the hole. Thank God if she didn't
see it, she would have collapsed down obviously into the hole," says
Boulvin.
That's when Boulvin made her way over and saw
the giant hole.
The weather made matters worse by causing mud
and rain to slide in, plus the bricks that made up that part of the wall are
now on the floor.
"It compromises the integrity of the
building, the roof, the other side of the wall of the building," she says.
They've had concerns about the building for a
while now.
Last year, they were hit hard by Ida, even
though they were told it wasn't a flooding zone.
"It came up several feet and flooded the
whole entire shop out," she says.
The city inspector has looked at the damage
and has deemed it unsafe.
They've placed a sheet of plywood to avoid any
overnight weather making matters worse but are looking for a more permanent fix
to avoid having to shut down.