Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Another 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.
#2re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:41amGood lord.
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#2re: 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.
#3re: 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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#4re: 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?
#6re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:56amI'm not as forgiving as you are, Besty. I'm guessing failure and/or careless about doing one's job. All around.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:08amUnbelievable. Here's hoping the death toll is low.
nygrl23
Broadway Star Joined: 4/18/07
#8re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:53amBest12bars, I'm guessing one contributing factor is hubris.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#9re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:59am
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#10re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:00am
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#11re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:01am
Worth a thousand words.
Glad you're OK, Iflit.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:02am
My God.
Did you take those, iflit?
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#13re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:03am
iflitifloat
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#14re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:04am
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#15re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:07amThat last photo is very poignant.
#16re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:12amThere 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.
#17re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:15amOh, how awful! How many of these crane collapses have there been recently?
#18re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:19amThe 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.
#19re: 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?
#20re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:31amYeah, I'm guessing none of those parts work very well now.
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Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#21re: 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.
#22re: 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.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#23re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:57amThe crane was apparently "jumping" on Friday and was inspected and found to be safe. Guess they were wrong.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#24re: Another Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:04amWhy 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.
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