According to the New York Times, officials said that the illegal secret tunnel that was discovered under a synagogue in New York poses a threat to the stability of part of the buildings connected to it.
The Building Department's monitoring team was ordered to take control of this tunnel and temporarily close parts of the buildings, and they issued fines to the Lubavitch rabbis who own the temple for violating building codes without a permit.
Close a neighboring building
In addition, a nearby building on Kingston Road was closed due to safety concerns after it was discovered that walls had been removed inside the building during the tunneling operation.
According to the administration's inspectors' report, this illegal tunnel was constructed without obtaining permits or prior approval, and did not contain sufficient supports, which led to the creation of openings in many parts of adjacent buildings at the basement level.
What happened?
- Clashes broke out after members of the extremist Chabad movement tried to prevent construction workers who came to block the tunnel, calling it “illegal.”
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10 people were arrested after a summons New York Police Department To implement the decision to forcefully close the tunnel and an attempt by a number of youth from the extremist movement to confront the policemen.”
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Last December, the tunnel was discovered beneath the world headquarters of the Chabad movement – the largest Jewish organization in the world – a famous building in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn, and synagogue leaders called in structural engineers to assess the damage.
In videos circulating on social media, a cavernous concrete space about 20 feet wide appears below the women’s section of the movement’s building, according to the website New York Post American.
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