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A woman who lives next to the Financial District parking garage that collapsed Tuesday was home during the destruction which left a gaping hole in one of her apartment walls.
“There were a lot of really big bangs first. Then part of the wall started coming down,” Sandy Imhoff, whose second-floor apartment shared a wall with the Ann Street garage, told The Post.
“Bricks were coming through. The place was filling up with dirt … part of my wall is gone now.”
One worker was killed and five others were injured when the garage on Ann Street near Nassau Street caved in at 4:10 p.m., swallowing dozens of cars and sending slabs of concrete plummeting from its fourth floor into the cellar.
“I was just in shock,” Imhoff said in the aftermath of the collapse. “I was worried for the other people in the building.”
Imhoff fled outside, but said her two cats were still inside her apartment.
Officials said the parking garage building had active violations dating back to 2003, but was not under construction.
Imhoff, however, said she heard what sounded like construction “banging” coming from the garage around 10 a.
