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floor, not the 16th. And while no one, fortunately, was hurt, 1010 WINS spoke to two street vendors: One said pieces of glass "hit him on the head" while "another vendor said he had to push his cart down the street after shards of glass fell into his food." Nice. Tishman Construction claims no work was being done where the glass panel fell, which is so not reassuring.

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."