Chunk of Prospect Heights Bookstore Building Falls, No One Injured: Tipster
A piece of a Prospect Heights building fell and caused some damage this morning.
Photo by Jeff Pruzan
Some masonry fell off a Prospect Heights building this morning at 11:45 a.m. and caused some damage, according to a tipster who sent in these photos. Luckily, no one was hurt. He said:
Huge piece of masonry just fell off the roof of 600 Vanderbilt. No one hurt inside or outside. I was in the store at the time.
The building has been the home of new and used independent bookstore Unnameable Books since 2009, when it moved from Bergen Street in Park Slope. What fell may have been a piece of rusty sheet metal that replaced the original cornice along with some plaster or concrete type material as well.
As the pictures show, the falling debris damaged the store’s two signs and moved two carts of books. It’s fortunate no one was injured.
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