Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

#1

Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:29am

This one on the Upper East Side...91st and 1st Ave. 100 fire fighters on the scene & a large number of other emergency personnel.

Took off the balconies of the building next to it.

#2

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:41am

Good lord.

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#3

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:42am

Two dead so far.

This is an outrage! After the last one, something was supposed to be done about these crane collapses. I'm furious. And horrified. Those poor people.

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#4

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:54am

What's causing them to collapse? Faulty equipment? Human error? Unstable ground?

Or are the cranes just too damn big and hard to control anymore?

I'm wondering if there's a significant contributing factor.

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#5

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:54am

I heard the sound of helicopters just as the story came on the radio - I looked out the window and counted 8 hovering over the scene.

Eastsiders, can you report in, please?

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#6

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:55am

I'd go with all of the above.

#7

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:56am

I'm not as forgiving as you are, Besty. I'm guessing failure and/or careless about doing one's job. All around.

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#8

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:08am

Unbelievable. Here's hoping the death toll is low.

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#9

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:53am

Best12bars, I'm guessing one contributing factor is hubris.

#10

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:59am

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#11

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:00am

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#12

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:01am

Worth a thousand words.

Glad you're OK, Iflit.

#13

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:02am

My God.

Did you take those, iflit?

#14

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:03am

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#15

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:04am

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#16

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:07am

That last photo is very poignant.

#17

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:12am

There is SO much construction going on in this city, and it's not like you can even avoid walking past a site where you see a crane. If one collapses, the damage can be blocks around.

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#18

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:15am

Oh, how awful! How many of these crane collapses have there been recently?

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#19

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:19am

The last one was March 15, andd before that, there were several but not so close together. I'm guessing there have been about 6 recently. Just a guess.

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#20

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:26am

I'm listening to the reporters discuss this. They are mentioning how an examination will be done to determine how sound the crane was, which parts may have been defective, etc.

Question- how can they determine this when the crane is now a pile of rubble in the street, and that the parts are now all unsound?

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#21

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:31am

Yeah, I'm guessing none of those parts work very well now.

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#22

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:32am

The same way they can find stress and wear in the metal wreckage of a plane. They'll reconstruct the entire crane from the piece and see where the intial breaking point was.

Heads are going to continue to roll over this.

#23

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:33am

After the March crane collapse (which was 2 blocks from my apartment), they supposedly inspected all the cranes in the city, but I think the building inspectors have been taking massive payoffs for decades.

The real problem is that there is too much high-rise development in the city, and as the real-estate market has been tightening, they builders are cutting corners and doing things on the cheap.

NO high-rise is worth human life.

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#24

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:57am

The crane was apparently "jumping" on Friday and was inspected and found to be safe. Guess they were wrong.

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#25

re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:04am

Why is it I'm only hearing about these types of things happening in NYC? There's high-rise construction going on all over the place - I was just in Seattle, and there're many visible cranes. But I only hear about accidents in NYC. Is it happening, and just not considered national news? I can't imagine that.