At least 2 killed as crane collapses onto row of New York apartment buildings
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Officials said that about 250 cranes were now in operation in the five boroughs, a telling sign of the city's building boom. (article 3)
Rescuers dug through debris Sunday for three people still missing in the rubble and wreckage left when a construction crane toppled like a tree across a city block and killed at least four construction workers. (article 11)
In the same building , Maryann Krajacic, 54, fainted after watching the crane fly by and smash into a nearby building, and seeing two workers dangling from a pole high atop the unfinished building where the crane had been. (article 15)
Freak accident Saturday afternoon's accident happened during an attempt to extend the crane to allow workers to start work on a new level of the building, said one of the owners of the company managing the construction site. (article 10)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at least four people, believed to be construction workers, have died and at least 10 people were injured in one of the city's worst construction accidents in recent memory. (article 2)
NEW YORK - A crane standing about 15 stories high toppled with a roar at a construction site and smashed into a block of apartment buildings Saturday, killing at least two people, authorities said. (article 13)
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crane, construction, building, Street, collapse |
Source articles
- ABC News: Crane Collapse Crushes Building, Killing 4 (ABCNews, 03/15/2008, 411 words)
- Crane Crushes NYC Buildings; 4 Killed (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 369 words)
- Looming Above New York With a New Aura of Fear (nytimes.com, 03/17/2008, 1190 words)
- Crews Prepare to Remove Fallen Manhattan Crane (nytimes.com, 03/16/2008, 1643 words)
- Crane Collapses on Manhattan’s East Side, Killing 4 (nytimes.com, 03/16/2008, 1651 words)
- Fall of Six-Ton Support Caused Crane to Topple (nytimes.com, 03/17/2008, 766 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. (FOX News, 03/16/2008, 882 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. (FOX News, 03/16/2008, 817 words)
- 3 missing after deadly crane collapse (msnbc.msn.com, 03/16/2008, 742 words)
- Rescuers comb NY crane crash site (BBC News, 03/16/2008, 322 words)
- The Seattle Times: 3 Still Missing in NYC Crane Collapse (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 03/16/2008, 650 words)
- Four killed in New York crane plunge (timesonline.co.uk, 03/17/2008, 434 words)
- At least 2 killed as crane collapses onto row of New York apartment buildings (dallasnews.com, 03/15/2008, 272 words)
- 4 Dead in NYC Crane Collapse (time.com, 03/15/2008, 524 words)
- Terrible Rumble, and Then Chaos as Crane Fell (nytimes.com, 03/16/2008, 1051 words)
- Victims Remembered as Men Who Knew Risks, but Loved the Job (nytimes.com, 03/17/2008, 786 words)
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