At 4 a.m. Sunday morning Toba Potosky, president of the board of Cadman Towers at 101 Clark St. in Brooklyn Heights, was awoken by a knock on his door. It was the co-op’s Superintendent Julio Davila. At about 10:30 p.m. the night before, a water pipe burst under Clark Street, funneling a massive amount of water into the mechanical room of the building’s basement.
Water was “shooting up like a geyser from a drain in the floor,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle. By 4 a.m., it was six feet deep and threatening the electrical system.
FDNY received the 911 call at 10:37 p.m. Saturday night, and had responded to the scene and notified utilities, according to a Fire Department spokesperson. But FDNY could not turn off the water surging into the basement from the broken pipe under Clark Street — only the NYC Department of Environmental Protection can do that.
