A visitors pole collapsed and injured 4 individuals Saturday morning close to the Museum of Pure Historical past on the Higher West Facet, police mentioned.
Individuals had been having fun with a sunny morning strolling by the museum when a pole {that a} upkeep crew was engaged on got here crashing down round 10:47 a.m. on the closely trafficked nook of Central Park West and W. 81st St.
A visitors pole on the northwest nook of W. 81st St. and Central Park West in Manhattan toppled on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, injuring 4 individuals. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Day by day Information)
All 4 victims had been transported by EMS to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital the place they had been handled for minor accidents.
It was unclear why the pole toppled.
A visitors pole on the northwest nook of W. 81st St. and Central Park West in Manhattan toppled on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, injuring 4 individuals. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Day by day Information)
The accident was paying homage to a horrifying incident on the Thanksgiving Day Parade practically 30 years in the past in 1997, when a part of a lightweight pole alongside the park-bordering boulevard was knocked off and critically injured a spectator.
Kathleen Caronna, who was 34 on the time, practically died when a bit of a streetlight weighing a number of hundred kilos fell and struck her head after it was hit by a six-story-high Cat within the Hat balloon. The blow put her in a coma for a month, after which she required in depth rehabilitation for her accidents.
Blood is pictured on the bottom after a visitors pole on the northwest nook of W. 81st St. and Central Park West in Manhattan toppled on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, injuring 4 individuals. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Day by day Information)
Caronna was watching the festivities along with her husband and 7-month-old son at 72nd St. and Central Park West when Macy’s handlers misplaced management of the balloon in 40 mph winds. Her husband, Massimo, and son, Alessandro, weren’t injured.
