A thinner woman wouldn’t have gone through the sidwalk in the first place.
Maybe she blames “the cheap sidewalk.”
Sort of. Grates and sidewalks are always collapsing in NYC. When I saw the initial report a couple of days ago, I actually did think that she was lucky because she was probably cushioned by her size.
The building is owned by a first class slumlord; the sidewalk door (which opens onto stairs to the basement for bringing supplies into the restaurant or business above it) evidently was just hanging by a hinge and the “sidewalk” at that point was literally an unsupported inch and a half of cement, cracked where it joined the building.
The owner lives in Jersey and was probably a friend of the late Vinnie the Chin, John Gambino and a host of others. They’re not big on building maintenance and they own a lot of property in that area.
Then she'd have no reason to thank "divine intervention" for her rescue.