All that snow is melting fast and breaking apart, sending dangerous projectiles raining down onto NYC streets. Some buildings in Manhattan have caution tape around them today, in an attempt to keep pedestrians from walking directly into the trajectory of falling snow and ice chunks. Good luck.
PIX 11 reports that a woman walking on West Broadway in Manhattan was hit on the head by a chunk of ice and "suffered a non-life threatening injury." More falling ice was reported on the Upper West Side.
chunks of ice falling off the Ansonia on W. 73rd St. And Broadway. #fallingicenyc Dangerous! cross the street pic.twitter.com/MMvfD8IQQl
— Margarita (@MFA2802) January 24, 2016
And in midtown.
@JimCantore @weatherchannel NYC people need to LOOK UP..ice falling from 40th floor pic.twitter.com/stszrFMDBh
— CYNTHIA JAMES (@CJSELITESUITS) January 24, 2016
The Buildings Department has reminded property owners and contractors that they're responsible for securing their buildings and making sure icicles and melting snow is safely cleared. But don't count on them to do the right thing—at this point, anywhere there's sky and gravity is a place you're going to want to wear a helmet and pray to the ice gods for mercy.
That hurt. Watch out for falling ice #nyc
— neverwinterize (@neverwinterize) January 25, 2016
The only lottery I play is the one where I walk around NYC hoping to not be killed by ice chunks falling off skyscrapers
— Michael Joyce (@NotMikeJoyce) January 25, 2016