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At around 8:30 am on February 26, 2021, a 52-year-old construction worker was tragically killed in a work site accident. The incident occurred at NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center on East 41st Street, where the victim had been working on the 16th floor. He reported...

Tragedy was narrowly avoided on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 15, when a glass curtain wall panel fell 56 stories from a midtown building to the street below, shattering and scattering chunks of glass all over the street. Fortunately, no one below was injured. Police...

It was a scary scene in midtown Manhattan when two window washers plummeted 15 stories off a scaffold suspended from a crane on November 14, 2020. Two unidentified men were working outside the 50th floor at 30 Hudson Yards on West 33rd Street and 10th Avenue around 11...

A normal day at work was transformed into a life-or-death experience when two workers were left dangling from broken scaffolding at an office building in Lower Manhattan. The incident occurred at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 5, 2020, at 250 Vesey St. As...