{"id":380852,"date":"2026-10-23T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:52:56","slug":"girl-6-hospitalized-after-being-struck-in-head-by-falling-brick-from-queens-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380852\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 6, hospitalized after being struck in head by falling brick from Queens building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 6-year-old girl was hospitalized after she was struck in the head by a brick that fell from a Queens building, cops said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was walking past a garage on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/56-61+59th+St,+Flushing,+NY+11378\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25e94c1748497:0x134e5d02c3247897?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">59th St. near 56th Drive<\/a> in Maspeth about 7:40 p.m. Thursday, when a 4-foot by 3-foot section had detached from the facade and rained down on the sidewalk below, cops and the city\u2019s Department of Buildings said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics brought the girl, who suffered a minor head injury, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a>\u00a0for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The DOB sent inspectors to the location, who issued a violation to the building owner for failure to maintain the structure, an agency spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6-year-old girl was hospitalized after she was struck in the head by a brick that fell from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-380852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}