Another Crane Emergency at One57 Highrise

BREAKING : Another crane emergency at the troubled luxury high-rise development known as One57, located on West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan near Central Park. Early reports indicate that there has been a malfunction of the crane at the construction site.

Photo: Portion of 57th street in NYC apparently closed due to crane malfunction pic.twitter.com/djd7uTzMrM /@mourelo

— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) October 7, 2013

"Police have closed West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, placing the area under a so-called Level One Mobilization," reported WPIX. This is the same construction site, which suffered from a partial crane collapse during Hurricane Sandy last year.

#NewYork #News Crane Stuck on 57th Street: Authorities have closed 57th Street because of a ... http://t.co/qlPrEtCHEX #NewYorkCity #NYC

— New York News (@NewYork__News) October 7, 2013

Crane problem at One57, the 75 story building overlooking Central Park. This is the same site where a crane dangled during Hurricane Sandy.

— Myles N. Miller (@myles_nm) October 7, 2013

Bill Rudin Electric Shock Therapy at St. Vincent's Hospital

The community is buzzing about word that a construction worker doing electrical work on the luxury condo conversion of St. Vincent's was electrocuted earlier this week. No information is known about the cause of the electocution or the status of recovery of the construction worker, except that he was rushed across Manhattan to Beth Israel, because there is now no hospital in the entire Lower West Side of Manhattan as a direct result of the Rudin Condo Conversion Project for St. Vincent's.