An awning that was attached to a Brooklyn Heights hotel and sat above a subway station entrance collapsed on Sunday morning.
The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, happened two days after a local New York City Council member convened a meeting to address conditions there.
Hotel St. George awning comes crashing down
The footage shows the overhang for the Hotel St. George, which opened more than 100 years ago, crashing down just after 7 a.m. It used to sit right above the entrance to the Clark Street subway station. Luckily, no one was walking underneath at the time.
Councilman Lincoln Restler said the building is the responsibility of Educational Housing Services, or EHS, which provides dormitory housing. Just this past Friday, Restler says he met with the NYC Transit president about a game plan to address issues with EHS…