Skylight shock
Partier in crash & plunge
A Brooklyn partygoer was seriously injured after he fell four stories through a skylight early Sunday and down a vacant shaft, breaking both legs.
“I heard someone scream, I heard a big bash, and there he was,” said one terrified witness who reportedly called 911 after the incident.
The unidentified 25year-old victim was enjoying himself on a rooftop on Malcolm X Boulevard near Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 1 a.m. when disaster struck, according to police.
The man stepped onto a pitched glass skylight that was raised several feet and covering an air shaft.
But it could not support him and the glass gave way, sending him plummeting four stories down and breaking his legs, according to officials.
Photos show the floor of the shaft covered in de- bris apparently predating the incident, which the man may have landed on after plunging.
Firefighters extricated the injured man from the shaft, over which several interior building windows look out, and EMS medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital. He is expected to survive.
Witnesses covered their faces in horror as the young man was taken out of the building and loaded onto a stretcher, photos of at the scene show.
But not everyone was upset; several neighbors had no sympathy because the rowdy party was so out of hand.
“Lesson learned,” said a neighbor who refused to give her name but said she called cops on the 100plus people on the roof. “They had no regard for safety. That was so dangerous up there.”
The incident is still under investigation.
The FDNY inspected the building Sunday, and the Department of Buildings issued a violation because the certificate of occupancy does not allow roof parties, according to city records.