Wet Concrete Floods Coffee Bar at Le Parker Meridien Hotel A wall at Knave, a coffee bar at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in Midtown, above, collapsed on Wednesday when a container gave way at a construction site next door. No one was injured. A wall gave way on the first floor of Le Parker Meridien hotel in Midtown Manhattan late Wednesday morning and sent concrete spewing into the hotel coffee bar from a construction site next door, the city's Buildings Department said. Bernard Gershon Workers were able to clean up most of the spill before it hardened, the hotel said. No one was injured, a spokeswoman for the department said. The coffee bar, however - a gracious room normally swathed in red velvet curtains, where a hot chocolate costs $6 - had seen better days. Construction workers were pouring concrete on the fifth floor of a new building on 57th Street, the department said, when a frame built to contain the concrete collapsed around 11:30 a.m. The liquid rushed down to the first floor and broke through the wall of the hotel's coffee bar, Knave, covering its brown and cream marble floor in heavy, wet concrete, roughly the consistency of pancake batter. "Whoosh!" said one construction worker, illustrating the gusher by spreading his hands open wide. And the wall cracked. Attempts to contact the construction company, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, were unsuccessful on Wednesday evening. The concrete did not reach the Parker Meridien's main lobby, which stretches from 56th Street to 57th, just west of Avenue of the Americas, said Marisa Zafran, a spokeswoman for the hotel. "Everyone took action immediately," she said. It's wet cement, you can't have that harden. A few hours after the spill, construction workers were still carting jagged pieces of cinder block and fresh concrete out of the hotel lobby in wheelbarrows, while a broad man in a dark suit stood in front of the 57th Street entrance and directed guests to the 56th Street side. The man stood, very still, on a thin layer of gray slime.