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6-year-old girl breaks leg after getting hit by falling bricks in Queens
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Published Oct 23, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET
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A 6-year-old Queens girl suffered a broken leg and a cut on her head after she was hit by falling bricks in Queens while walking with her mother on Thursday, police said.
A 4-foot-by-3-foot section of brick came loose from the side of a single-story garage on Maspeth Avenue near 59th Street on and fell to the sidewalk, the Department of Buildings said in a statement.
The department issued a violation to the property owner for what it called “failure to maintain the garage building.”
Efforts to reach the property owner were unsuccessful.
The girl was hit at about 7:30 p.m., according to the NYPD. Officers found her conscious and alert, with a fractured left thigh bone and a minor cut on the left side of her head.
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, officials said.
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