Using async function for an event listener is an anti-pattern as any thrown error will become an unhandled error. Instead, wrap the async stuff in an async-IIFE and use try/catch to properly handle any error.

If there's a missing try/catch, there will be an unhandled error regardless whether it's an async function or an async IIFE.

Hence, why I'm saying there should be a try/catch here. I think only pipeline could throw here, so it should be:

(async () => {
	try {
		await pipeline(
	 		readStream,
	 		createWriteStream('image.png')
	 	);
	} catch {
		// handle it
	}
})();

Right?

This can be one way. Another is:

readStream.on('response', async response => {
	try {
		  await pipeline(
			  readStream,
			  createWriteStream('image.png')
		  );
	} catch (error) {
		// ...
	}
});

I've modified the code. Should be fine now.