The Associated Press reported that the person killed was a Wall Street worker sitting in a parked car. [...]
The accident happened as workers were trying to secure the crane against winds around 20 mph by lowering the boom, which had been extended to as long as 565 feet the day before, officials said. Because the crane was being lowered, workers were directing pedestrians away from it on a street that otherwise would likely have been teeming with people.
— npr.org
A couple of nearby construction workers took video of the collapse on a cellphone – you can watch that here.
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This happened in New York Before? or am I imagining this.
It's happened a couple times.
Yeah, that's the WRONG video, this is the correct one.
Isn't that Herzog & de Meuron condo tower the crane was working on?
thanks Beta, what's with the fucking censorship?
as if a human response to a fucked up situation isn't appropriate.
holy shit is right.
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