New York Crane & Equipment
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New York Crane & Equipment Corporation owns and operates construction cranes in the New York area. It is based at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
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on 51st Street
in Manhattan. At least seven people were killed and several others were injured. Killed were construction workers Wayne Bleidner, 51, of Pelham; Brad Cohen, 54, of Farmingdale; Anthony Mazza, 39, of Staten Island; and Aaron Stephens, 45, of New York City, police said. Family who answered at the homes of Bleidner and Mazza had no comment Sunday.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
The United States Navy Yard, New York–better known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard or the New York Naval Shipyard –was an American shipyard located in Brooklyn, northeast of the Battery on the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan...
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March 2008 crane collapse
On March 15, 2008, a crane owned by the company collapsed at 303 East 51st Street303 East 51st Street
303 East 51st Street is a skyscraper currently on-hold status in the Turtle Bay neighborhood in New York, New York. The residential building is planned to rise with 44 floors...
on 51st Street
51st Street (Manhattan)
51st Street is a long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.-East 51st Street:*The route officially begins at Beekman Place which is on a hill overlooking FDR Drive...
in Manhattan. At least seven people were killed and several others were injured. Killed were construction workers Wayne Bleidner, 51, of Pelham; Brad Cohen, 54, of Farmingdale; Anthony Mazza, 39, of Staten Island; and Aaron Stephens, 45, of New York City, police said. Family who answered at the homes of Bleidner and Mazza had no comment Sunday.