Workers: Brooklyn Bridge façade collapse ‘could have been much worse’
Saved by a geyser of water
Workers doing construction on the Brooklyn Bridge said that if the walkway’s façade hadn’t collapsed the way it did — and when it did — Wednesday night, the outcome could have been “much, much worse.”
As it was, the tumbling stone slabs injured five pedestrians walking on the sidewalk under the Brooklyn Bridge overpass at Prospect and Washington streets in DUMBO. The façade collapsed onto the sidewalk at roughly 7:40 p.m.
Because of the way a geyser of water shot out from the façade, workers told the Brooklyn Eagle, people started moving away from the wall seconds before it collapsed. That action may have saved their lives.