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City: Crane collapse building mistakenly allowed

The East Side building whose towering construction crane collapsed last month, killing seven people, should never have been built on the cramped Turtle Bay side street, the Department of Buildings' chairwoman said Thursday.

Zoning laws covering the site did not permit the construction of the 43-story tower on East 51st Street, an error that the chairwoman, Patricia Lancaster, described as...

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