1 Man Dead, 3 More Hurt as Crane Falls in High Wind in TriBeCa, Mayor Says
(DNAINFO) Megan Cerullo, Jack D’Isidoro, Jeff Mays, Irene Plagianos, Murray Weiss and Aidan Gardiner, February 6, 2016 — A “brilliant” mathematician from Prague was killed and three other people were injured when a crane toppled at a TriBeCa construction site amid high winds Friday morning, officials said.
Construction workers were trying to lower the Bay Crane Company crawler crane and secure it as 25 mph winds whipped through the area about 8:24 a.m., when it flipped over, sending its 565-foot-long arm careening onto Worth Street stretching from West Broadway to Church Street, officials said.