A Bronx woman fell through the bathroom floor of her apartment and straight into the basement Sunday, neighbors told The Post.
The victim, who lives in a first-floor apartment with her husband and young child, plummeted after a section of concrete under the floor of her bathroom gave way at the six-story brick building at 1204 Shakespeare Ave. in Highbridge, neighbors said.
Her condition was not immediately available.
“She went through the bathroom floor to the basement,” stunned resident Raysa Mota, 37, said. “She fell into the basement! I heard the trucks come to help.”
The concrete in the woman’s first floor apartment on 1204 Shakespeare Ave. in Highbridge suddenly collapsed. Tomas E. Gaston
The woman’s condition after the fall was not immediately known. Tomas E. Gaston
The accident left a 2-foot by 4-foot hole in the bathroom floor, according to a city Department of Buildings vacate order Sunday.
City officials posted the building vacate order on the front of the structure.
“The Department of Buildings has determined that conditions within this premises are immediately perilous to life,” the order states. “This premises has been vacated and re-entry is prohibited until such conditions have been eliminated to the satisfaction of the department.”
Residents of the site said they have previously complained of hazardous conditions in their homes and building neglect.
“Every apartment has something broken,” said a female first-floor neighbor who asked not to be named. “My apartment has many things broken. Very dangerous. They fix nothing!”
Asked if the building’s super was available to speak, a neighbor said an appearance was unlikely.
“He’s hiding,” he said.
