Williamsburg, NY – Council Candidate Isaac Abraham: Flood 311 With Calls For Action On Elevator Tragedy

Williamsburg, NY – When you sit down to write a memo of how great the volunteer organization’s in the Jewish community at large, your hopes and prayers are, that its only a minor case and no one got hurt, Shomrim was there. A minor accident or a cut and Hatzolah was there,
you have to get to the hospital and Chesed was there, you have a flat and Chevirim was there etc.;

but not in a million years do you prepare all volunteers or the entire community to respond to the very tragic accident that happened this morning in Williamsburg when two children leave the house and kissed their mother good bye, only for one of them never to come back home because the Housing Authority which manages the Taylor Wyhte Project as well as two other projects in the area, has not responded in a professional way to the hundreds of complaints that the elevators that were built in the late 1950s and has constantly failed to operate properly, and we call this negligent, it got stuck between 2 floors and one of the children trying to get out, falls into the elevator pit never to come home again to his parents or siblings.

Had any private owner of a multi dwelling run buildings the way NYCHA does, the city would have shut them down.

I know that many of you that are reading this, “Oh here he goes again complaining” try talking to all residents that live in the NYCHA buildings and let them tell you the nightmares that they had with the elevators for years, how many times my father (till 120) wheelchair bound had to call volunteers to take him up the stairs 4 flights because the elevators did not work, this tragedy was an accident waiting to happen because there is no one to talk too in the city, not about maintenance not about crime and not about the undesirable’s that have been coming in lately into the Williamsburg Projects.

many years ago I had the great pleasure of working with all tenants associations from all projects as a united voice, Bedford Gardens, Clemente Plaza, Taylor Wyhte, Independence Plaza and Jonathan Williams, it worked great because all together its over 3,000 families, but the sitra achrah got involved and that was the end.

not only the Neiman family lost a child, its the entire community lost one of our precious little children and it could have chas V’shulem happened to any of us, this child was going to where most of us are coming from “Yeshiva, Chieder” where shliach mitzvah eina nizukin, but the Al Mighty has his way’s and we thank him for not having 2 tragedies.

So why am I writing this, because I want to express my heart full thanks to all volunteers, in your schis alone of gemilas chasudim, mushiach should come already, BUT, please if there is a problem any problem any where, flood 311 with calls, don’t think that your neighbor will do it, one life to lose, is one too many.

There should be a full investigation on all the elevator maintenance that was done or not done, and it should be done by none other then the Department of Investigation, not NYCHA.

As for those who have Jnet, please have one site where we can log all complaints and if need be please have one site give out phone #s of all important agencies to know who to call.

Sherie Rachmin, Pesach-and lets all have A git G’bensht Yur.