A witness at the scene said that she saw a teen boy on the ground unconscious, with a wound on his head, and the debris appeared to be a heavy piece of concrete.
Mohammad Hossain said several pieces of concrete, one weighing 25 pounds, came off the 7th Avenue Overpass bridge and smashed his windshield and hood.
Fortunately, the two NYPD officers were already out of the vehicle responding to the call, and neither were injured.
The scaffold somehow came loose in Midtown, sending bricks from the facade crashing down onto the sidewalk and sidewalk shed.
The family of a 6-year-old boy is in mourning after they say a shelf and mantel fell on top of him this weekend as he reached for a toy.
A construction worker has died after he was struck in the head by a piece of the building he was working on Monday morning.