A window caved in Monday afternoon at IS 201 in Dyker Heights. Brynn Gingras reports.
A Brooklyn middle school has been temporarily shut down after a large window caved into a classroom Monday afternoon.
The 9-foot by 10-foot window fell into a fourth-grade classroom at Intermediate School 201 in Dyker Heights, which has been under construction for more than a year.
“It vibrated a little bit,” said sixth-grader John McIntyre, who was in math class a few doors down. “A lot of people were freaking out.”
No students or teachers were injured, but one mother said her daughter got dust and debris in her hair from the collapse.
The FDNY has posted a vacate order, forcing students to move to a new building. Fire chief Rich Tarkenton says the order will be lifted once authorities determine the rest of the windows are safe, which should be by later this week.
Meanwhile, parents of the middle school students said they were a bit leary about dropping their tweens off at a high school.
