Local activists Hilary Jager, Erika Belsey Worth, President of the Brooklyn Heights Association, and Josh Vogel, all of whom are founding members of the Coalition for the BQE Transformation, have written an editorial published in the New York Daily News that notes the similarities between the conditions believed to have led to the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida and those found to be endangering the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway below Brooklyn Heights: The conditions described in the Champlain Towers collapse, including spalling concrete, salt and water infiltration, and exposed reinforcing bars, are frighteningly reminiscent of recent engineering assessments of the BQE.