A NYCHA building’s ceiling collapses in Bed-Stuy.
Bed-Stuy residents criticized NYCHA on Saturday for failing to stop a leak that led to a portion of the building’s ceiling collapsing this week. On Wednesday night, Marlene Ritter, a resident of a NYCHA building on Willoughby Avenue, claims she was in bed when she heard a loud crash. She claims to have witnessed a portion of her apartment’s ceiling collapse. “This is sickening, the smell is horrible…I’m embarrassed,” said Ritter. The building’s tenants claim that no repairs have been made since the ceiling collapsed on Wednesday and that they have been without heat or hot water ever since.