A 62-year-old construction worker died after falling off of scaffolding attached to a building under construction in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, police said.
Sal Spiritoso was working on the brick exterior of a home at Beach 44th Street in the Seagate section of Coney Island when he fell 12 feet at about 2:30 p.m., cops said.
Spiritoso, who lived in Perth Amboy, N.J., was pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital.