News — Brodway

Construction Scaffolding Crashes Down on Broadway Photo by Cecilia Barberot. A large section of scaffolding at a construction site on Broadway and 85th Street came down on Thursday morning, though it appears to have been fully caught by the sidewalk shed below. FDNY got a call about an “unstable facade” at 11:20 a.m. at 2330 Broadway, a spokesman said. Police said no one was injured in the incident. The site is expected to be a new senior living residence development. Update: The Department of Buildings told us the issue was with a “cocoon system” meant to safeguard the edge of...