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Just last week glass fell from the Bank of America building at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street, and about a block away at 2:15 p.m. today the same thing has occurred. From the building where the annual New Year's Eve ball drop takes place, 1 Times Square, it's being reported that "A WINDOW HAS FALLEN FROM A 10TH FLOOR WINDOW. GLASS IS ALL OVER THE ROADWAY AND A LARGE CHUNK OF GLASS IS STILL ON THE BLDG READY TO FALL." Officers are currently on hand clearing away traffic and pedestrians, and as of 3 p.m. the Emergency Service Unit was in the building trying to get the remaining glass. They have warned "GLASS MAY COME DOWN DUE TO THEM BREAKING THRU THE WALL." It's not a very good day for Times Square, earlier a cab crashed into some pedestrians.
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I work in a lot of buildings around Times Square, and you'd be surprised what bad condition some of them are in. In one building, which is located just next to the Office Depot on 40th going through the block between seventh and broadway, there was a window basically taped into place that kept threatening to pop right out. The office workers were more concerned about it blowing in and killing them than about it blowing out and onto the street, though.
I'm pretty sure that was the 40th street side of the building. Watch out around there! The buildings are in serious disrepair, never having had much integrity in the first place, it seems. They're all getting new windows these days, which is what a lot of the scaffolding is about, but they're not getting the most expensive windows, if you know what I mean...
And then of course there's the knowledge that 1 Times Square is going unoccupied, with no regular use in the office space the need to keep the place as well maintained as possible has been abandoned, and so this may be the first of many fallen windows from 1 Times Square.
Sure that wasn't today. 42nd & 5th was closed for blocks because of falling glass from that new bldg being constructed.