Collapsed Retaining Wall Crushes Garages in the Bronx

Some 80 firefighters responded to the scene and formed bucket brigades to sift through the rubble.
Jan. 7, 2003
A huge retaining wall collapsed in the Bronx Monday night, crushing several cars in a row of garages.

The wall, 60 feet high and 80 feet wide, crumbled into a huge pile of debris just before midnight at Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue in Riverdale. Seven vehicles inside a single-story row of garages were flattened, but no one was injured.

"Police were banging on my door to tell me that there's been a crash in the garage,

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