Residents of the complex Weeksville Gardens Crown Heights (Brooklyn) sued the housing authority New York (NYCHA), saying that due to a collapsed ceiling in the apartment they suffered serious injuries. Amount of claim — $10 million according to New York Daily News.
January 13 in the apartment of 24-year-old Daniel Jeter and his 22 year old girlfriend Titannica Multari the ceiling collapsed. As a result, both of them received injuries of the spine, and Titania also injuries shoulder and neck.
The culprit of the accident the young people called the city, negligently performs their duties: according to the lawyer Arkady Frekhtman, in addition to all the apartment discovered threat mold.
A few days after the incident, the victims were moved together with their parents Daniel, his sister and brother-autistic in temporary housing with no furniture or electricity. Later, however, the furniture delivered.
Spokeswoman the mayor of new York said that the apartment is repaired, the family soon was able to return to it.
