FEBRUARY 25, 2015
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
Emergency workers responded to a partial building collapse
on the west side of Manhattan Wednesday.
The building was an old garage that was being demolished. Here is a photo of the old garage prior to
the demolition.
A spokesman for the FDNY told Yahoo News that the
three-story building (a parking garage), located at 642West 57th Street between
11th and 12th avenues, was under demolition.
About 16 construction workers were inside the building when it
collapsed.
One construction worker was transported to the hospital with
serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the spokesman said, as first
responders continued to look for any other victims and assess the site. The outer shell of a New York City building
that was under demolition has partially collapsed, injuring a construction
worker.
Fire department spokesman Brian Norton says the worker rode
down the collapse Wednesday afternoon by standing on scaffolding or part of the
three-story midtown Manhattan building as it crumbled.
Several vehicles and school buses near the building were
damaged. A bus driver was sleeping in a parked school bus right
outside the building when the collapse happened, but he was not injured.
Aerial photos of the scene showed scaffolding collapsed onto
a school bus parked outside the structure.
It's unclear what caused the collapse. The NYPD spokesman
said the department is investigating.
The collapse happened a day after a construction worker at
the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was crushed to death when several steel beams
fell on him.