Exclusive | NYC luxury high-rise pelted with illegal fireworks, sending tenants fleeing: I got hit in the chest

A luxury Brooklyn high-rise was pelted with illegal fireworks July 4 — damaging its windows, showering onlookers with sparks and sending rooftop party-goers fleeing, fuming tenants told The Post.No one was seriously hurt as the rogue pyrotechnics were launched at the tony apartment tower from the street, but residents in the trendy Bushwick neighborhood said they missed their coveted local skyline views during the spectacular Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show — to run for cover to avoid getting hit with the stray blasts.“The fireworks were pelting the windows — it sounded like hail,” resident Eric Dolny told The Post.He said the rockets were launched just before sundown directly in front of the swanky, 18-story, newly built Cedar Tower, where one-bedrooms run about $3,500 a month.“It was definitely jarring,” the 34-year-old said.“They were bursting in front of our window.”A 28-year-old software engineer said she was directly struck by a burst while hosting about a dozen friends in her 12th-floor apartment.“I got hit in the chest,” said the woman, who declined to give her name, adding that some fireworks sparks landed on others at the July Fourth fete, too.“I was trying to film the fireworks from my balcony, so maybe that was my fault, but I was standing near the entrance to my balcony door,” she said.The projectiles began at about 9:15 p.m.

and continued for about 30 minutes, launched by two men right outside the apartment building, witnesses told The Post.The building, erected in 2023, is one of the tallest structures in the hip neighborhood, standing on a block of otherwise two- and three-story structures.Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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