“Mine from the corner where the warehouse was below and I was on top. Everything that is collapsed down there was mine, that whole area on that side,” said a neighbor.
“My room is on that side, near the kitchen,” said another neighbor.
These are testimonies from some of the victims of the partial collapse of a building in the Bronx, who lost everything, or so it seems at least until they are allowed to recover their belongings.
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“I came yesterday and how am I going to get involved… so the police didn’t let me take him or anything to do with it. I lost everything, everything, everything,” said Carmen Ricart.
Alfonso Alejo has not been able to work since the afternoon of December 11, the first day of the building’s partial collapse.
“I have four days with these clothes since today. Tomorrow is five days,” said Alejo. “At the hotel and I have time to wash my socks, boxers and polo Che. Tell me. Do you think I want to walk around like that? I’m embarrassed to talk to people and stand next to someone else. Yesterday I had I have to buy brushes, toothpaste, everything I need for clothes.
Furthermore, the complaint of many of them is that they have been sent to hotels in Brooklyn, far from everything they know and their jobs.
José Toribio does not understand the logic of this decision.
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“The city is making it difficult for us to the point that they are sending us to a hotel in Brooklyn and we live in The Bronx. They must consciously put us in The Bronx or Manhattan near where we live,” Toribio said.
Doña Carmen Ricart managed to stay these days with a sister, and she has not received any help from anyone.
“I lost everything, everything, everything. These shoes were given to me by a sister-in-law and a bra and panties, I lost everything… But everything, everything, they have given me no less. And we are the most affected. “My apartment is all gone. I’m at a brother of mine with my husband, oh holy father, help me.”
And the help comes in dribs and drabs, Alejo received 200 dollars from the Red Cross and an address to go and request an apartment.
“They gave four days, tomorrow to wake up there. You understand, they come to me to give me a paper to apply for a shelter, but things are done at once. That is not done at once, at night in the morning, no.”
