Complaint letter regarding water damage, 182 Broadway, Aug 2002

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QUADREIGN MANAGEMENT CORP. FRANCHISEE OF BURGER KING® Peter A. Abramson, President 481 MAIN STREET, suite 402, NEW ROCHELLE NY 10801 phone 914 636-0337 fax 914 636-0338 email [email protected]

August 5, 2002

Mr. R. Radhakrishnan, P.E. NEW YORK CITY DEP 59-17-Junction Blv'd., 8th Floor Corona, NY 11368

Re: Cleaning of Buildings, 182 Broadway & 2 John St. 8-04-2002

Dear Mr. Radhakrishnan, On Sunday, August 4, 2002, you had a contractor cleaning the building I occupy as a BURGER KING restaurant. Richard Marcus of Gotham Estates is the Owners representative. Your contractor used a fire hydrant for water that was defective. One of the owners of the contractor, Louie Jr., as well as a DEP representative saw the water that inundated my Burger King restaurant. According to Mr. Marcus, the hydrant used was known to be defective. The contractor told me that he did not know that the hydrant was bad. Throughout the day, water came through my foundation wall and flooded my basement. My Burger King is located in the basement and sub-basement of the building known as 2 John Street. The address of my restaurant is 182 Broadway. At some time in the afternoon, Louie reconnected his equipment to another hydrant. The water stopped leaking through my foundation wall at this time. My plumber, A&L Plumbing came to the restaurant on Sunday to establish where the water was coming from, and then to pump it out. I want to be reimbursed for this cost and and my labor costs to cleanup the water. I have been told that there was also some damage done to a sheetrock wall in the sub- basement. Please contact me and let me know where I should send this invoice (when I receive it) for reimbursement.

Very truly yours,

Peter Abramson

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