The Big Apple turned into the Windy City on Monday, with gusts topping 50 mph — so powerful that they ripped the roof off this Queens gas station.
“When the wind came, [the roof] was too weak and it broke,” said Willie Vazquez, 44, who works across the street from the Gulf station on the Horace Harding Expressway in Fresh Meadows.
No one was injured in the 9 a.m. incident, but winds did leave two people hurt elsewhere in the city.
Scaffolding collapsed in The Bronx, sending a metal pole down onto the head of a 39-year-old woman, police sources said. The woman suffered a minor cut to her forehead.
A person at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown also was hit in the head by a falling object knocked from a construction site at around 1:40 p.m., officials and a witness said.
The victim, who a witness said was a construction worker, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition.
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