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Wall Collapses On Upper West Side Street
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 7, 2010
Modified Apr 7, 2010
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Bricks from a 25-foot high wall's facade suddenly fell onto Freedom Place at West 68th Street on the Upper West Side. It's unclear if anyone was hurt. Currently the Fire Department is on the scene inspecting the damage and we hear that the Office of Emergency Management is also on the way. Fire trucks are blocking much of the short, four-block street that's parallel to Riverside Boulevard and West End Avenue.
Photograph of parking garage facade on Freedom Place
The wall is outside a parking garage, which is built under a courtyard/lawn area for the Lincoln Towers complex. The sidewalk around the parking garage has been taped off, perhaps over concern that more of the facade might fall.
Freedom Place is named "In memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, who on June 21, 1964 in Philadelphia, Mississippi gave their lives in the unending struggle for freedom and democracy."
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