A 56-year-old worker from New Jersey was killed last week after falling eight stories from a New York City construction site with a history of safety issues, authorities said. Angel Pilataxi fell from a building about 10:20 a.m. Friday on the 100 block of Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights being converted to luxury apartments, a New York Police Department spokeswoman said. Pilataxi, of Plainfield, landed on a second-floor terrace and was pronounced dead at the scene, the NYPD said in a statement. Born in Ecuador, Pilataxi worked for F & C Professional Aluminum and was a father of three child…
