A luxury Brooklyn hi-rise was pelted with illegal fireworks July 4 — damaging its windows, showering onlookers with sparks and sending rooftop party-goers fleeing, fuming tenants told The Post.
No one was seriously hurt as the rogue pyrotechnics were launched at the tony apartment tower from the street, but residents in the trendy Bushwick neighborhood said they missed their coveted local skyline views during the spectacular Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show — to run for cover to avoid getting hit with the stray blasts.
“The fireworks were pelting the windows — it sounded like hail,” resident Eric Dolny told The Post.
He said the rockets were launched just before sundown directly in front of the swanky, 18-story, newly built Cedar Tower, where one-bedrooms run about $3,500 a month.
“It was definitely jarring,” the 34-year-old said. “They were bursting in front of our window.”
A 28-year-old software engineer said she was directly struck by a burst while hosting about a dozen friends in her 12th-floor apartment.
“I got hit in the chest,” said the woman, who declined to give her name, adding that some fireworks sparks landed on others at the July Fourth fete, too.
“I was trying to film the fireworks from my balcony, so maybe that was my fault, but I was standing near the entrance to my balcony door,” she said.
The projectiles began at about 9:15 p.m. and continued for about 30 minutes, launched by two men right outside the apartment building, witnesses told The Post.
The building, erected in 2023, is one of the tallest structures in the hip neighborhood, standing on a block of otherwise two- and three-story structures.
“Fireworks were hitting every floor of this new building, and there were people on the roof that had to run away,” an onlooker wrote on social medial.
Dolny’s girlfriend said, “It actually looks like [the fireworks] might have scratched up our windows.
“It was definitely dangerous and could have hurt people who were out on their balconies or could have potentially caused a fire.”
The hurt software engineer’s roommate, who is 30 and also a software engineer, said, “At one point, our friends told them, ‘Stop! We’re up here!” — to no avail.
The disturbing situation occurred as Illegal-fireworks complaints in the Big Apple have sharply decreased year-over-year to date, from 3,136 calls in 2025 to 2,257 this year.
In the same zip code for Cedar Tower, there were 43 complaints in 2025 compared to 21 complaints for the same period this year.
At the same time, summonses issued for illicit explosives July 4 are up 59% citywide, from 32 in 2025 to 51 in 2026.
The city’s Department of Buildings told The Post it has not received any complaints about fireworks-related damage at the site.
Tenants told The Post the explosive episode should serve as a wake-up call to further enforcement efforts.
“Some of my friends were really scared,” said a 54-year-old beauty company employee, who called on both NYPD and the building’s management to investigate the problem.
“The fireworks were very close,” she said. ” It was too much.”
