Newsday from New York, New York • 14

Man drowns off City Island others hurt by flying debris I 0 By Melanie Lefkowitz STAKP WKITKK The heavy winds that buffeted the city yesterday afternoon left one man drowned when his small boat capsized off City Island and a carpenter in critical condition after he was hit by debris from the AOL Time Warner Center under construction in Columbus Circle officials said Victor Amezquita 66 of East Harlem drowned when the boat he and three others went fishing in flipped over about 11:15 am police said The three other men were rescued when a passing boat picked them up police said In midtown the carpenter Cedric Hunte 36 of Brooklyn was taking his lunch break eating pizza when he was hit with a piece of wood officials said He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital Center in critical condition and was in surgery last night were right there with him and then we left for five minutes to get into the elevator shaft and then they told us to shut everything said Kwami Broad-belt 22 a member of Local 580 who was working with the man when he was struck Three passe ruby also suffered irjuries when they were hit with flying debris All three were in stable condition last night at local hospitals About 12:30 pm the wind blew an empty wooden mold on the upper floors of the building which will be 54 stories when completed officials said One piece fell through a glass window at the nearby Trump building witnesses said and the shattering glass and falling wood scattered pedestrians looked like pieces of paper it was so far up but it was four-by -eight-foot sheets" said Bill Dacey 35 a construction worker at 1790 Broadway "People were running like Police closed about eight blocks around the building until the wind died down Ilyse Fink a spokeswoman for the city Department of Buildings said the department called every major construction site in the city yesterday including this one at 10 Columbus Circle telling them to shut down because of the high winds The Time Warner- building which is managed by Bovis Lend-Lease has received nine minor violations since 2000 Fink said Several other people throughout the city suffered wind-related injuries as gusts reached 43 mph in Central Park 54 mph at La-Guardia Airport and 60 mph at Kennedy Airport A cabdriver was hit with debris that flew off 300 Madison Ave the same building where two construction workers died in August when a cable on a construction elevator collapsed In Williamsburg a 74-year-old man was hit with wood from a scaffolding at 402 Union Ave causing him back head and neck injuries And a police officer assigned to the motorcade for the Afghan mission to the United Nations was struck in the arm by a patio umbrella that flew off a second-floor balcony at 50th Street and Park Avenue around 3:10 pm police said Meteorologist Matthew Tauber said the heavy winds were caused by the departing Tropical Storm Gustav and a low-pressure system to the north but some people who were blown around help but associate the unusual weather with the anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attack "I think giving us some messages from up said Robert Rodriguez a building manager at 42 61st St who watched debris from the Time Warner building fly more than a block to land right in front of him "Everyone should have stayed home HP' 1111 lie? pises of plywood soon In contsr Is blown oil ti Photo by Moht Mm A tho AOL Tims Wsmsr Csntsr building in Manhattan Pharmacist Slain on Upper East Side By Leonard Post KTAIT WkJTKK A 76-year-old Manhattan pharmacist was found stabbed to death yesterday morning in his the tony Carnegie Hill neighborhood She arrived at the store at 11 am police said and was escorted to Mt Sinai Hospital Chong Ku-Lee who operates the Apple Tree grocery store next door said Mond had a routine coming into the grocery at 9:30 am for a cup of coffee and a muffin then opening his store at 10 am every day "He was a very conscientious said Susan Gladstone who lives in the neighborhood His death on the day the city mourned the loss of so many laist Sept 11 made it all the worse she said "Of all days how sadistic can you she said said a detective of the delivery man who was not identified "He calls 911 The ambulance team arrives and turns him over and discovers a hole in his chest "It was an old said the detective "At the pharmacy counter where he worked he still used a typewriter He was an old man I don't know why anyone would kill Mond of Freeport had been at the store since 1983 and had previously owned a smaller drug store a few blocks north His wife Phyllis operates a jewelry boutique side the store which is popular with residents of Bernard Mond who owned the Rexall Drug Store on Madison Avenue between 93rd and 94th streets was found by a delivery man at 10:30 am face down in front of the counter with a single puncture wound in his heart police said "He thinks the pharmacist just fell ii a I-' A 5 4 i I 1 i Jr 1 i 4'.