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A few hours ago, F train service was suspended between Avenue X and Church Avenue due to falling debris at an elevated subway station. WABC 7 reports, "The problem started around 5 a.m. this morning when a 4x8 piece of the platform became loose and collapsed down below at the 18th Avenue Station." The transit authority "took out the remainder of the loose concrete, while engineers examined the structural integrity of the platform." Manhattan-bound service resumed, but Coney Island-ound service is skipping 18th Avenue.

The Gothamist Newsmap indicated there was "falling debris" at West 43rd Street and 6th Avenue in Midtown and now it turns out it's not ordinary debris: It's Bank of America window glass debris! CityRoom reports that a "pane of glass fell from around the 16th floor of the skyscraper." Apparently no one was hurt and the police closed sidewalks around the under-construction building. We'll repeat what a reader told us last time around: "Stuff falls from that building all the time, it's insane. I am never walking under it again."

Naturally, there are concerns after, per the Sun, a "65 square-foot panel of steel and glass" fell from the Bank of America building at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street in Midtown yesterday. Two people were injured; a construction worker at the Verizon building across the street described seeing the panel to the Daily News, "We looked up and saw this piece of glass covering the entire sky." A stop-work order for exterior work was placed at the site and safety violations were issued to Tishman Construction. Though this is the 6th time since 2006 in which material has fallen from the building, a Tishman spokesman said, "We do not see a pattern with regard to previous incidents...It's undetermined as to what happened was mechanical or human. Something did not happen normally this time."

For the umpteenth time, glass has fallen from the under-construction Bank of America building at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. Per WABC 7, the glass fell "across the street onto scaffolding surrounding the Verizon building." Um, thank goodness for the Verizon building's scaffolding, but apparently two people were still hurt. There has been a number of "falling debris" incidents at the location. West 42nd between Broadway and 6th has been closed and a reader writes, "Stuff falls from that building all the time, it's insane. I am never walking under it again."

When buildings attack! Yesterday, a 50-pound piece of "decorative terracotta" fell onto a BMW parked outside a Tudor City Place building. (When buildings are telling drivers to park in car parks?)