City officials today confirmed a Brew report that there are two walls in the 200 block of East 26th Street that separate the CSX railway from the street, and it was the upper wall – owned by the city – that failed on Monday.
Officials also responded to questions about whether a contractor working for the Department of Public Works may have inadvertently help trigger that failure, which suddenly caused a half-block of sidewalk to tilt sharply down towards the rail line.
“We have no reason to believe” that a water main installed a few feet from the compromised wall was responsible or contributed to its partial collapse, said Jeffrey Raymond, a spokesman for DPW.
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