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Second-floor window crashes to the street in Downtown Crossing

City officials are looking into what caused the window pane to fall Wednesday afternoon.

People walk past a TJ Maxx store in Boston. AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File

February 29, 2024

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No one was injured after a glass window fell from the second floor of a TJ Maxx store in Downtown Crossing Wednesday, officials said.

According to Boston police, the window came crashing down to the sidewalk outside 350 Washington St. around 3:18 p.m. Wednesday. The city’s Inspectional Services Department is looking into what caused the window to fall, police said. It was not immediately clear whether the wind played a role; Massachusetts faced heavy gusts late Wednesday into early Thursday.

TJX — the parent company of TJ Maxx and HomeGoods, which has a neighboring store in Downtown Crossing — explained in a statement that the window fell from a second-floor TJ Maxx storage room.

The company said it is “grateful that nobody was hurt.”

“We take this seriously, and are looking into how it may have occurred,” TJX said. “At this time, the building’s landlord is working on having the window replaced, and both our HomeGoods and TJ Maxx locations in Downtown Crossing are open for business.”

A photo posted to the social media platform X shows broken glass and debris scattered across the sidewalk.

“I just heard, like, yelling and swearing and then the next thing I heard was just this incredible crash,” Carina Flynn, who captured the shot, told WBZ.