One dead after crane collapses in Manhattan

“Thank God we didn’t have more injuries and lose more people”, de Blasio said. The nearby New York Law School evacuated its campus and canceled classes until Monday.

A construction crane has been removed from the New York City street where it collapsed, killing a pedestrian.

The deadly collapse of a construction crane in lower Manhattan on Friday highlights New York’s failure to adequately address a safety “crisis” at hundreds of worksites across the city, an official watchdog said.

In 2012, a construction crane partially collapsed on top of a almost completed, 90-story apartment building during high winds brought by Superstorm Sandy.

After issuing a stop-work order the DOB has given the ok for cranes around the city to resume operations, some after an additional inspection.

“I saw the crane two days ago and I said that didn’t look safe at all and literally it came down the next morning”, said one resident. One person has died and at least three people are injured, according to NBC 4 NY.

Officials say he was killed in Lower Manhattan while sitting in his auto when a giant crane collapsed as workers were lowering it amid a snow squall.

The video was shot by Glenn Zito from the window of a high-rise office building in the Tribeca neighborhood where the crane collapsed.

“My family knows I work all over the five boroughs daily and they can’t really keep up with where I am most of the time”, added Natale.

The crane’s boom landed across several cars, smashing their roofs. Authorities said they did not yet have information if anyone was killed. De Blasio said two people were seriously injured, while a third suffered more minor injuries. Workers near the corner of West Broadway were attempting to secure the crane against about 20 miles per hour wind gusts when, at around 8:30 a.m., the boom toppled over, damaged four buildings and crashed down on a row of parked cars along the north side of the street.

The massive construction crane collapsed during a swirling snowstormin the morning.

“We have our gas mains underground, and some of the pipe can not withstand a tremendous impact like that”, said Richard Yako, a senior specialist in emergency response with Con Ed. City building inspectors had been at the site only Thursday because the boom was being extended so it could reach farther onto the roof, de Blasio said.

The company operating the machine, Galasso Trucking and Rigging, did not respond for a request for comment.

Work crews sliced the 565-foot-long mangled crane into dozens of pieces, then used other cranes to load the pieces onto flatbed trucks.