• March 12: "A construction worker digging a foundation in Brooklyn was killed on Wednesday when part of a wall from the building next door collapsed on him." [NYT via Sun] (Photo: NYT)
• March 4: A vacant five-story building owned by Kushner Companies, owned in part byNew York Observer owner Jared Kushner, collapsed in Harlem. There were no reports of injuries but concerns about debris landing on tracks stalled train service to and from Grand Central Station. [NYT via Sun] (Photo: NYT)
• January 14: A construction worker trying to pour concrete fell 42 stories to his death at Trump SoHo condominium project. [NYT via Gothamist] (Photo: Curbed)
• December 14, 2007: Seven tons of steel fell from new Goldman Sachs building construction site in Battery Park City, paralyzing an architect. (via Gothamist) (Photo: Gothamist)
• December 3, 2007: A pedestrian is injured when gusting wind pushed debris of the New York Times' new building. Another pedestrian is injured in a similar incident involving a nearby building.
• October 17, 2007: A large steel bucket fell from the top of the future Bank of America tower, "crashing through the plywood roof of a sidewalk shed." Eight people were treated for minor injuries. The incident was the fourth case of falling debris at the site in less than two years. [NYT] (Photo: NYT)
• October 2007: "A piece of scaffolding fell from a high-rise on Madison Avenue at East 60th Street, damaging a United Parcel Service delivery truck." [NYT]
• August 18, 2007: A construction worker's cigarette was blamed for a seven-alarm blaze at the old Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero, which was being prepared for demolition. Two firefighters are killed. [Gothamist via Gothamist] (Photo: Todd Myers)
• September 29, 2006: At Toll Brothers' One Ten Third development, a crane dropped its rigging onto a cab, crushing the front of the vehicle. A family inside narrowly escapes injury. [Gothamist via Gothamist] (Photo: Gothamist)
• May 2, 2006: A steel pipe fell from the New York Times building construction site and crashed through the sunroof of a car, injuring three people. [NYT]

According to the Post, Kushner's real estate concerns also recently suffered the collapse of a deal with Harvey Weinstein. (We can make that joke because no one was hurt in the building thing, except for commuters, who were merely inconvenienced.) He is now suffering from something of a "credit crunch" and those buildings he used to buy for many millions of dollars are not as full of stores and moguls as he maybe hoped. So the company is paying back loans with its own cash!

Maybe everyone should send him his five dollars back? [NYT]

A tipster writes:

A wet mess at the Time Warner Center this morning. We can't use any of the elevators that service all of the CNN floors. Apparently, the torrential downpour caused flooding in the elevator banks that stop on 1 through 10. Either a drain pipe burst or a vent was left open and water poured in. It was cascading down through the elevator shafts and water pooled on all of the floors by the elevators. So much for being in an luxurious, state of the art new building. Employees had to enter through the North tower and navigate a maze of hallways and stairs to get to their floors and studios. The water apparently also messed up some of the internal video feeds. But naturally, the thing that people seemed to be most concerned about is how the heck are they going to get up to that glorious corporate cafeteria on the 10th floor for their egg white omelettes.

Ms. Ardito said "poor" did not mean a structure was at risk of collapse. At the Brooklyn Bridge, the major problem is the roadway deck on the ramps, and not structures that support the roadway. She said a more complete rehabilitation was expected to start in 2010.

"The poor rating for the Brooklyn Bridge means that there's only components of the bridge that are in poor condition," she said. "They're actually the ramps leading to the bridge, not the span of the bridge."

In Ways Large and Small, Many Bridges Meet Definition of 'Deficient' [NYT]