While we are still hours away from "Peak Storm", the structural casualties are already adding up. FDNY reports [5] a 2nd alarm alert at the soon-to-be tallest residential building in Manhattan - 157 West 57th Street (aka One57 [6], where recently a record price was paid for a duplex apartment) entailing a dangling crane. The area is being evacuated - to somewhere we assume that does not have cranes (good luck finding that). The critical question for Steve Liesman remains - how much more is a 'broken crane' worth to GDP than a 'broken window'? Live stream embedded below...
UPDATE: New York City officials order evacuation of upper floors of several
buildings near site of partially collapsed crane.
Here is the clip of the actual collapse!!!
Here is the close-up stream of the crane (via NBC):
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com [7].
And CBS Local news updates:
Current Over/Under on collapse is 6/9 hours
Emergency links (click image for real-time updates)
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