Rescue officials arrive at the scene to assess the damage of Tuesday afternoon's dramatic collapse. The New York City street where a parking garage collapsed, killing one person and resulting in five others pulled from the structure, remained closed a day later Wednesday, as investigators have yet to disclose the suspected cause behind the building reportedly with four active violations suddenly caving in by Lower Manhattan's Financial District. At a press conference Tuesday, NYC Department of Buildings Acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik described how drone footage showed how the four-story building on Ann Street, between Nassau Street and William Street, "all the way pancaked, collapsed all the way to the cellar floor." He acknowledged that an active violation on the building dated to 2003. The buildings commissioner said an application was filed in 2010 but did not indicate whether the violation was corrected.

There are big "leased" signs in the windows of the former Classic Car Club space at the corner of Broome, but Jack Resnick & Sons, which owns 250 Hudson, understandably said that it couldn't share any information. When I poked around elsewhere, I was told General Motors was involved, so I figured it was something akin to Cadillac's marketing boondoggle up the street. But then I looked into the Department of Buildings paperwork for the space, which lists the tenant as GM Cruise LLC. "GM Cruise LLC, commonly referred to as Cruise or Cruise Automation, is an American driverless car company headquartered in San Francisco," according to Wikipedia. "In March 2016, General Motors acquired Cruise for an undisclosed amount, although reports have placed the number from'north of $500 million,' to $580 million, to over $1 billion."