A Queens building with a host of code violations and a vacate order partially collapsed today, authorities said.
The roof of the vacant two-story building on the corner of Jamaica Avenue and 79th Street in Woodhaven caved in at about 6:20 p.m., the FDNY said. Nobody was hurt.
“I was outside having a cigarette and heard a loud boom,” said neighbor James Wohlmaker, 42.
“The whole back end of the building is just gone. All the fire departments in Queens must have been here. There were firefighters everywhere.”
The collapse shut down service on the nearby J train between 121st Street in Queens and Crescent Avenue in Brooklyn.
Neighbors said the building – a former furniture store – had been empty since the store closed two weeks ago.
The city Department of Buildings ordered the second floor evacuated in February because of “questionable construction methods,” according to the DOB website.