May 15, 2008
Complete coverage: Manhattan crane disaster
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.
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.
Seaford family mourns worker killed in crane fall
Since news of the Manhattan crane collapse was first broadcast on television stations Saturday afternoon, Cliff Canzona's family had been holding onto a small strand of hope.
Three bodies pulled from rubble of crane collapse
Hope gave way to grief Monday as the lifeless bodies of two Long Island construction workers and a woman from Miami were pulled from the rubble of the catastrophic East Side crane collapse.
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