Bricks Fall Off Downtown Building & Hit Person

Living and working in the big city comes with all sorts of benefits and perils. From the excitement of being in the middle of a bustling metropolis to the ills that come from an urban existence, there are all sorts of things that you have to be aware of when you traverse any modern city.

From speeding cars and people-filled sidewalks to homeless and street vendors, there are all kinds of things that you have to navigate when you are walking around the streets of just about any city in America. Of course, that means Buffalo isn't exempt from this. However, one thing most people don't worry about is things falling from the top of skyscrapers in the middle of the city and hitting them.

Unfortunately, it seems that the exact thing happened in Downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, near the corner of Pearl Street and Court Street.

Bricks Fall From a Downtown Buffalo Building And Hit a Pedestrian

It was a chaotic scene in downtown Buffalo as police and Emergency Medical Services responded to the west side of the Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo after a person was injured by something falling from the top of the building.

Around 1 pm on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, some bricks fell from the 13th floor of the building and hit a pedestrian in the head. Emergency crews found the unidentified man on Pearl Street awake before taking him to the hospital in an ambulance.

Officials from the Buffalo Fire Department and the city's Department of Permits and Inspections are investigating the full circumstances of what happened and how the bricks fell from 100 a 100-year-old building that was originally constructed in 1925.

A spokesman from the Liberty Building spoke with WIVB-TV and expressed relief that the man was not seriously hurt, and they pledged to work with city officials to determine exactly what happened.