Chair Flies Off from Manhattan Roof, Severely Injures 23-Year-Old Woman

Manhattan, NY – A 23-year-old woman was severely hit by a wooden chair that fell from the terrace of a Manhattan roof. The Midtown West resident was on her way to lunch Saturday when she was struck by the heavy lounge chair from the 12th-floor penthouse of the 15 Union Square West Condominium building, causing serious, life-threatening, traumatic brain injury, among other injuries, that required emergency brain surgery.

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