When a man was injured by materials falling from an East Village townhouse-in-progress, reportedly owned by actor David Schwimmer, in early April, it was boldfaced fuel for an ambient New York fear: In a city full of air conditioners hanging out of windows and gargoyles disintegrating twenty stories up, the pedestrian is ever at risk of being bonked from above.
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