A common New York City nightmare became a tragic reality yesterday for a pedestrian who fell to his death through a flimsy cellar grate in Bed-Stuy.
According to the Daily News, the man was walking over the cellar doors outside an abandoned building at 1281 Bedford Avenue around 3 p.m. when they gave way beneath him. The man, said to be in his 30s and living in a nearby shelter, was seen by witnesses being removed from the cellar.
Bystander Richie McCray told the News he saw the horrible incident unfold. "The thing just opened," he said. "He was walking. He wasn't paying attention. The thing is loose. And he disappeared."
A man was hospitalized last summer after tumbling through a set of open cellar doors in East Harlem.
