Work has been halted at a major Flushing development site since Friday, when a baseball-sized boulder flew across 39th Avenue, shattering the window of a bank and injuring a security guard.
Construction workers were chopping rocks at the Flushing Commons site on Aug. 8, as part of excavation for the $1 billion mega-development, when the dislodged stone flew over the 8-foot wall and soared like a well-struck chip shot across the crowded downtown street.
A security guard from the Woori America Bank was hospitalized from the shattered glass with serious but non-life threatening injuries, an FDNY spokesman said.
Developers said they held a safety meeting on Tuesday and were working with the city Department of Buildings to rectify the situation.
6 comments:
Do we know if the construction workers are union members, or even legal residents?
Anon #1, what does it matter if they're union? It's a private development.
It matters because the company promised union jobs in order to win approval. This went through ULURP.
Another lawsuit for nyc....what else is new?
By now, I would have expected to see some grainy security camera footage of the whole incident.
That's what happens when you continue to stuff people and buildings into a small area. This is just the beginning.
Eventually Flushing will just break off and sink.
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