By JOE MOLLICA and NEIL GRAVES
June 11, 2008
In a city of manmade canyons and killer cranes, there's no telling what might come hurtling from the skies next - including a 50-pound boulder that flattened a BMW yesterday.
A chunk of masonry - weighing 40 to 50 pounds, witnesses claim - fell from the upper floors of a 25-story co-op at 45 Tudor City Place at around noon and caved in the hood of a brand new parked BMW.
"It's horrible," said flummoxed Beemer owner Maria Sacchetti, 31, who appeared on the scene moments after her 2008 ride was hammered. "My car is a mess."
The Department of Buildings said crews from East Coast Restoration and Consulting Corp. of Manhattan were repairing the façade, when a piece of decorative terracotta fell.
Residents at the address, just south of the United Nations, have made prior complaints, the latest being April 22. It said work on a façade was causing scaffolding to "bang against [a woman's] window and that her window is not protected," according to the department's Web site.
But the department, which said the matter was "resolved," noted "no scaffold [was] found hitting window, no debris falling at the time of inspection."
A woman who answered the phone at East Coast Restoration said: "You must have the wrong number, we do not have a project there."
A subsequent call produced a hang-up.
The department issued a permit to East Coast Restoration to do repair work in June 2007. It was renewed on May 7.
