A car smashed into the Washington Street office of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) last week and caused damage serious enough to prompt the neighborhood organization to switch back to remote work conditions.
“We’re still open for business,” said Gail Latimore, the executive director of Codman Square NDC. “We’re physically closed at our office, but just like the pandemic, we’re open remotely and doing our work in that same fashion – remotely. We’re trying to assess if there is structural damage.”
The incident occurred at 5:45 p.m. on Memorial Day, May 30. One staff member who was in the back of the building heard a very loud noise out front. He exited from a rear door, and found the car lodged into the NDC’s front lobby with two adults and two children in the vehicle.
“The staffer said there was a boom and the whole building shook,” she said. “It was pretty traumatic for him.”
Police are looking into the incident, but there have been no conclusions yet as to a cause of the incident.
“Memorial Day at 6 p.m. made it such that it wasn’t as busy as a normal Monday. That was very fortunate,” said Latimore.
