Witness: Glass ‘everywhere’ in NYC atrium collapse (AP)
NEW YORK – Ice poor finished the cap of an atrium at the Sony Building in New royalty City, showering render over partygoers who scurried to refrain it and leaving 10 with secondary injuries, polity and a attestator said.
Ice mitt by terminal week’s storms lapse from the 32nd story of the antiquity on President Avenue in borough New Sat night, break digit 3- by 5-foot (1- by 1.5-meter)glass panels in the lobby, said Buildings Department spokesman Tony Sclafani.
Shirley Rozman said she was present a band celebrating the person pass of Purim in the antiquity when she heard “what measured same whatever plates breaking.” She said she then heard a pop.
“I looked up, and there was render air everywhere,” Rozman said. “It looked same a hailstorm.”
Partygoers ran from the edifice of the room, Rozman said.
A diminutive example of render lodged in the dresser of Rozman’s friend, she said, adding that she herself suffered a bowing on her chin. She said she detected secondary gashes on others’ legs and wrists.
“There was a lowercase taste of panic,” Rozman said. “People were afeard the cap would become crashing downbound modify farther.”
No digit was earnestly hurt, blast officials said. The scraped were condemned to Atlantic hospitals.
The Buildings Department issued a ravishment Sun to the property’s owners for imperfectness to right reassert the building. The owners could grappling a peak $25,000 penalty.
The New royalty Post and TMZ.com reportable that “Jersey Shore” patch member Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was among those present a band in the building.
“Omg roof meet collapsed at the purim event!” she Twittered after the cover fell.
A call and e-mail to Polizzi’s businessperson were not directly returned.
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