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A large crane has collapsed damaging an apartment building on Manhattan's upper east side and injuring at least two people, the New York City Fire Department said on Friday. (REUTERS)
The Fire Department said it has pulled people out of the wreckage on the Upper East Side. Their conditions were not immediately known.
The top floor of a nearby high-rise apartment building was damaged. Firefighters and rescue workers were continuing to search through the wreckage.
The accident happened 2½ months after a crane collapsed, killing seven people about two miles south.
In that March 15 accident, contractors building a 46-story condominium near the United Nations were trying to lengthen the crane when a steel support broke. The crane demolished a four-story town house and damaged several other buildings.
A city inspector resigned after his arrest on charges of falsifying business records and offering a false instrument for filing.
In April, the city’s buildings commissioner resigned, under fire over a rising number of deadly construction accidents.
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