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6-year-old girl breaks leg after getting hit by falling bricks in Queens

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6-year-old girl breaks leg after getting hit by falling bricks in Queens

The girl was walking with her mother in Maspeth on Thursday. The Department of Buildings cited the owner of a garage for “failure to maintain” it.

A 6-year-old Queens girl suffered a broken leg and a cut on her head after she was hit by falling bricks in Queens while walking with her mother on Thursday, police said.

A 4-foot-by-3-foot section of brick came loose from the side of a single-story garage on Maspeth Avenue near 59th Street on and fell to the sidewalk, the Department of Buildings said in a statement.

The department issued a violation to the property owner for what it called “failure to maintain the garage building.”

Efforts to reach the property owner were unsuccessful.

The girl was hit at about 7:30 p.m., according to the NYPD. Officers found her conscious and alert, with a fractured left thigh bone and a minor cut on the left side of her head.

She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, officials said.

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