At least one person is dead after a construction
crane fell on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The crane smashed into a high-rise apartment building, shredding
a corner of the penthouse.
A witness across the street says the collapse sounded "like a
thunder clap. Then, an earthquake." He said the entire cab came
off the crane. Another man heard the "loud bangs" from down the
street. He said, "It sounded catastrophic, and that's from two
blocks away."
Firefighters have been combing through the wreckage, searching
for survivors. One body was placed on a gurney and covered in a
white sheet. A construction worker knelt over the gurney, gently
stroking the sheet.
Officials say fire crews pulled other people out of the
wreckage. Their conditions were not immediately known.
The accident comes more than two months after a crane collapsed
at another Manhattan construction site, killing seven people.