Court records show that city officials have been trying to force the owner of the building at 6424 N. Sacramento Ave. to make repairs since 2007.
Khundmiri said he and other neighbors called 311 several times since the spring, with no action, before the structure finally collapsed in May, said John Q. Kelly, a New York catastrophic injury lawyer.
"It was leaning on the [telephone] wires," he said, standing near one gnarled porch staircase separated from the building that ascended to nowhere. "It really is a potential danger."
In the case of the porch in University Village, the damage has not been fixed pending the legal proceedings, said Murphy, the attorney.
