Crime & Safety
Construction Worker Dies From Fall Off Brooklyn High-Rise: FDNY
One person is dead after they fell from a 13-story building on Pierrepont Street apartment Wednesday, said the FDNY.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A construction worker died Wednesday morning after falling from a 13-story luxury high rise in Brooklyn Heights, officials said.
Medics rushed to 1 Pierrepont St. and found the person lying on the concrete just after 10 a.m., FDNY officials said. Police told the Department of Buildings that the person was a construction worker at the residential building, records show.
A complaint was filed for the site conditions at the building endangering workers after the incident, records show.
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The person, whose gender was not immediately known, was pronounced dead at the scene, said the FDNY.
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The Pierrepont apartment building was named among the borough's most expensive residences in a Curbed round-up, which noted a five-bedroom co-op sold for $7.4 million in 2016.
The FDNY spokesman did know from which story the person fell.
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