Dive summary:
- Safety returned to the skies over West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan when workers were able to move a broken crane boom up against the under-construction One57 luxury condominium tower and tie it off there for later recovery.
- The city let people back into buildings that had been evacuated in case the 25,000-pound boom, knocked over by superstorm Sandy last Friday, plunged onto the street.
- City officials say the One57 crane is the only one they know of that was damaged, and that they believe it was the fierce wind, not any mistakes with the crane's installation or operation, that caused the collapse.
From the article:
Construction crews successfully tethered a dangling tower crane on West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan on Nov. 3, allowing nearby buildings to re-open. ...