Woman Fatally Struck by Plywood from High-End Condo Construction Site

March 19, 2015 — Just days after a piece of Plexiglas fell onto two parked cars from luxury megatower One57, a sheet of plywood ripped away by high winds from a condo construction site fatally struck a woman in a parking garage at 175 West 12th Street. Police officers told the Daily News that "Tram-Thuy Nguyen, 37, died Tuesday at Bellevue Hospital shortly after the freak 5:50 p.m. tragedy near the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village." She was hit by a 4-foot-by-8-foot sheet of plywood, which was torn from a construction site security fence on West 12th Street, police said — where the shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital is undergoing conversion into a high-end condo development called The Greenwich Lane. According to the National Weather Service, winds in Manhattan at nearly 6 p.m. topped out with gusts of 38 mph. The Daily News reports that "the W. 12th St. building was the subject of numerous complaints during construction in 2013 — but no complaints were made in 2014."