By Mathew Katz and Wil Cruz
DNAinfo Staff
MIDTOWN — A construction worker plunged 30 feet through a hole in a roof of an abandoned building on Eighth Avenue Friday morning, officials and witnesses said.
The 25-year-old man, part of a team working on suspended scaffolding to repair the facade of 575 Eighth Ave., attempted to reach the front of that building by getting on the roof of the adjacent structure at 585 Eighth Ave., witnesses said.
But the worker fell through a hole on the roof of the three-story dilapidated building, near West 38th Street, and plummeted three floors, officials said.
"He was there on the side of the building, and he just fell down," said Ranjeet, who works across the street at the Simran U.S. Gift Shop and declined to give his last name.
