The gruesome death of a man in an apparently faulty Brooklyn elevator was an “act of God” that couldn’t have been predicted, the landlord of the luxe building insisted.
“Acts of God cannot be foreseen and intervened,” Goose Property Management wrote in a letter Saturday to tenants of The Espoir, a six-story Williamsburg building with a gym, roof deck, parking and a game room.
Goose Property Management acknowledged the elevator was “overloaded” with passengers when it fell and pinned Eran Modan, 37, but the firm refused to take responsibility.
“It pains us that a young person should end his life so tragically in our building,” said the letter to tenants, which called the death “unfortunate.”
The elevator is inspected monthly, the management company said.
The elevator at the Hope Street building malfunctioned when 14 people, including Modan, crammed into it at 4:15 am Friday.
It lurched downward, jolting Modan halfway into the lobby, before it shifted again, crushing his upper body as passengers looked on helplessly.
One of the building’s owners, Simon Dushinsky, and its architect, Karl Fischer, did not return calls.
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