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List of claimants in amended flood claim

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A legal document listing multiple individuals and families filing claims against the City for damages from the April 30, 2014 flood.

NYC-WTC_000159475–000159547

Folder label: “Lyndenwood Flood - Howerd Bch 4-30-14

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Because of the negligence of respondents, claimants were caused to endure large amounts of water within their homes and/or garages, ranging from several Inches to several feet, destroying and damaging massive amounts of property, and causing massive amounts of damage to the homes themselves, requiring repair, demolition, replacement, cleaning and mold removal, among other things. Further, the property values of respondents' homes are believed to have decreased dramatically due to this flood resulting from the negligence of the respondents.

Respondents created, caused, and allowed a dangerous and hazardous condition to exist and persist. That the negligence of respondents consisted of failing to properly and safely maintain and control the aforementioned sewer and/or drainage system; in allowing the existence of a condition which was known or should have been known to cause damage or destruction of property, or be inherently dangerous and/or hazardous; In allowing a condition to exist that posed a risk to the citizens and residents of the aforementioned neighborhood; in allowing the sewer and/or draining system to remain in a defective state and/or condition; in causing and permitting a dangerous condition; in failing to act in a reasonable and prudent manner; in creating a condition which caused claimants to be damaged; in negligently maintaining and/or repairing said sewer and/or drainage system, or in failing to entirely; in negligently inspecting said sewer and/or drainage system, or in failing to entirely; in failing to give any warning of the impending flood; in failing to properly prevent the subject flood.

Said incident was the result of the negligence and carelessness of the respondents herein, their agents, servants, and/or employees, in disregarding their duty to maintain the sewer and/or drainage system in a safe and proper manner; in falling to act as reasonable and prudent persons would have acted under the circumstances then and there existing; in failing to properly maintain and/or repair the above-identified location and surrounding areas in a safe and proper condition; in failing to properly inspect the above-Identified location; in permitting said area and surrounding areas to become dangerous and defective as described above, thus creating a dangerous and hazardous condition that caused significant losses; in undertaking to act and in so acting, failed to act in a reasonable and prudent manner; in creating a condition which caused claimants to lose significant amounts of personal property and suffer significant amounts of damage to real and structural property; in

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