A Brooklyn man trying to move his girlfriend’s SUV out of reach of a water main break fell into a sinkhole that partly swallowed the vehicle early Monday.
The flooding broke out overnight at an apartment complex on Bay 37th St. and Cropsey Ave. in Bath Beach.
The owner of the SUV and her boyfriend went to move the SUV from the lot about 2:30 a.m. without realizing a sinkhole had opened up, according to 1010WINS.
SUV remains in sink hole after water main break outside apartments on Cropsey and Bay 37th Brooklyn. Dozens of apartments don’t have water @1010WINS pic.twitter.com/kuI7cgwrxg
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“When we came out to move my car, my boyfriend tried and he went straight into the hole,” SUV owner Vincenza Malagiere told the radio station.
“There’s no one out there so we did our best, but I got him out. Him helping himself and me pulling him out.”
According to ABC7 New York, the leaking main was shut off by the Department of Environmental Protection and floodwater is being pumped out of the area but at least 10 buildings, some multi-family dwellings, have been affected by the shutdown.
Malagiere’s boyfriend was back to work as a building superintendent after a brief hospital visit, his girlfriend told 1010WINS.
