After a spate of disheartening falling-related fatalities, a bright spot: a 19-year-old Pratt student who fell five stories off her friend's Bed-Stuy apartment building is alive. "She hit facedown," a witness tells the Daily News, "She was still alive. I saw her moving." Katherine Del Rosario plunged from the building around 6:30 yesterday evening, after drinking and hanging out on the roof with a few friends. "They weren't drinking a lot," a friend said, "She wasn't drunk enough to fall." Del Rosario is in stable condition at Kings County Hospital. more ›

Remember when you fell on that patch of ice on North 12th and Bedford? Your embarrassment was caught on tape and will now live forever on the internet. One Williamsburg voyeur says he "noticed 4 out of every 5 people that walked by ate it on the ice there." Instead of warning the unfortunate pedestrians or throwing some salt down, he hit record and later uploaded the montage to YouTube: more ›

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. more ›

Times health writer Tara Parker-Pope got some unexpected thrills during last night’s performance of Gypsy, which stars Patti Lupone at Broadway’s St. James Theater:

Toward the end of the show, as Ms. LuPone’s Mama Rose was about to launch into her show-stopping number, there was a crash in the balcony. A huge metal plate, about 30 inches in diameter and used to cover a diffuser, came crashing down from the ceiling. It hit a young woman in the head and ricocheted into the back of my friend’s neck before rolling into my seat.