Neighborhoods

A Wall Under the Brooklyn Bridge Collapsed During Last Night’s Crazy Storm

by

Image via @FDNY

Yesterday evening, New York saw one of those intense storms that makes summer in the city so memorable. The rain was sudden and absolutely torrential, and lightning cracked the sky for hours. Underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, a facade suddenly collapsed, injuring five people.

The Associated Press reports that about 25 feet of the facade, a decorative piece of wall under the bridge on the Brooklyn side, collapsed just before 8 p.m. There was no significant structural damage to the bridge — other than, we guess, a piece of it falling off — but the Daily News reports that a family was hit by falling pieces of wall. The family was standing right under the facade when it came down. Their four-month-old baby was knocked to the ground and promptly scooped up by a stranger, apparently unharmed.

It’s still not entirely clear what caused the collapse, but the Department of Transportation is investigating.

Those of us in Brooklyn and Queens also got a beautiful but incredibly dangerous light-show over Manhattan:

All this astounding weather is thanks to the effects of Hurricane Arthur, which is currently hulking over the Eastern seaboard messing with your holiday plans. Today, delightfully, there is still both a flash flood warning and a heat advisory in effect. The flash flood warning is in place until Friday morning, and the heat advisory until 5 p.m. today. Just stay inside and wait for the patriotic explosions to start tomorrow night.

More:

Highlights

About Us Staff Contact Us Advertise Sponsored Terms of Use Privacy Pick Us Up E-Editions
©2017 Village Voice, LLC. All rights reserved. | Site map