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Posted by Jeannie Choe | 18 Oct 2006
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Adoringly referenced by many a Pratt student as "that crazy house," Clinton Hill's one-of-a-kind Broken Angel house has been slapped with a handful of violations and was deemed unfit for living after an inspection of a small rooftop fire on October 10th. Arthur and Cynthia Wood have lived there for over 30 years and will soon be booted unless they can pay an architect or engineer to bring the building to NYC codes. Their son Christopher's Flickr set contains excellent shots of the property and also explains his parents' desperate situation in further detail with instructions for those who would like to contribute funds.
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Like everything else in this world that has a deeper backround and reputatuin, is shot down by "standards"...They worked hard to make the Broken Angel what it is now, and who knows what else they could have done to it. That would have been amazing to see. It's a beautiful building, and I don't even live in the N.Y.C. and im not even from the U.S., I'm from Canada, but I felt like i was part of the building while watching Dave Chappelle's Block Party. People have known to love and grow beside this building, and it would be a shame to see it getting knocked down.
I hope it's not too late for this suggestion. But a halloween haunted house fundraiser looks perfect for that place.
save the "Broken Angel"
NOW!!!!!!
Update Broken Angel 10/29/06
On 10/10/06 Broken Angel suffered minimal damage from a fire at the top of the structure. The cause of the fire is unknown and still under investigation. Broken Angel has been an active project of construction by my family beginning in 1979. Major construction was finished in 2002, and all work done thereafter has been for the purpose of maintaining the building. The fire brought the attention of the Department of Buildings (DOB), previous interactions had occurred in 1986, and 2002 with no action taken against the building. During the course of building and maintaining the structure there have been no accidents or complaints. Compared with most modern construction projects, such as the Time Warner building in NYC, this is an excellent record. It raises questions as to why large developers are allowed to continue construction when they pose a risk to the community, whereas Broken Angel, which has no history of construction problems, has been singled out as a danger. My mother and father, the legal guardians and owners of Broken Angel were threatened with eviction for 6 days. On the 7th day they were vacated by the police without a court order or engineer�s report. We question the necessity and the humanity of this action. They were told that this was done for their safety; however action was taken prior to any inspection of the interior of the building by an engineer. Furthermore, we were told that the building would be demolished in 3 weeks if an architect did not submit plans to bring it to code. We have been compliant with this request. We are thankful to the firm of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture http://www.jpda.net/news.html for all of their help and support. On Thursday (10/26/06) an engineer from the DOB toured the structure, and the next day the DOB released a different story. A DOB spokesperson recently commented to the Daily News (10/27/06) that any demolition orders, if warranted will take approximately 3 months to begin.