Glass from window panes rained down from the upper floors of the trouble-plagued Goldman Sachs tower in lower Manhattan, snarling traffic for more than two hours yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
Police closed West Street near Battery Park City after the glass from the 43-story skyscraper crashed onto the roadway. No injuries were reported.
The $2.4 billion office tower, slated for completion early in 2010, has been the site of a number of construction accidents over the past two years.
In December 2007, seven tons of steel tumbled off the 740-foot-tall building, leaving an architect working in a nearby trailer paralyzed.
Five months later, a sheet of steel plummeted from the 18th floor and landed in a baseball field where a Little League game was being played.
And last April, a hammer fell and shattered the rear window of a passing taxicab.