Complete coverage: Manhattan crane disaster

March 20, 2008

Buildings chief slammed after crane collapse

In May 2007, a beaming buildings commissioner, Patricia Lancaster, stood alongside the mayor to unveil what many had predicted was an impossible task: the first revision of the city's building code in nearly four decades.

March 18, 2008

Bellmore native a victim of crane accident

Santino Gallone was moonlighting from his regular construction job Saturday afternoon, perched near the top of a crane when it collapsed and crushed a town house on Manhattan's East Side, friends of the Huntington Station resident said.