Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'midtowncranecollapse'
April 18, 2008
Photograph from East 51st Street by gattogrosso212 at flickr Here's a big WTF: Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster told the City Council yesterday that plans for 303 East 51st Street, the site where a crane collapsed into surrounding buildings and caused the deaths of seven people, were accidentally approved by the department. Apparently the 43-story building's design didn't comply with zoning requirements for the area, and Lancaster "blamed the error on the unnamed plan examiner."......
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