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1967 New York City freight train collision: rail 6 [143] 1962 Queens soap plant fire: fire 6 [92]: 109 1943 Harlem riot of 1943: mass unrest 6 [144] 1912 Equitable Life Building fire: fire 6 [145] 1891 1891 New York City train collision: rail 6 [146] 2018 2018 New York City helicopter crash: aircraft 5 [147] 1991 Union Square derailment: rail 5 ...
Building and construction regulations have existed in New York City since its early days as New Amsterdam in the 17th century. A "Superintendent of Buildings" position was created within the Fire Department in 1860, in response to the Elm Street Fire on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which killed 20 people.
2023 New York City parking garage collapse: New York City, United States: Parking garage 1 dead, 5 injured 2023 Interstate 95 bridge collapse: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: Highway overpass 1 dead 2023 Davenport apartment collapse: Davenport, Iowa, United States: Apartment building 3 dead, 1 injured [76] 2023 Surry Hills Building ...
February 18 – Manhattan State Hospital fire in New York City, killed 25. [16] 17 May – Cleveland School fire, Camden, South Carolina, killed 77. 31 May – Petrograd Opera House fire in St. Petersburg, Russia, killed and injured "many" people (it is unknown exactly how many victims there were). [17]
Most of those who perished were civilians, except for: 344 members of the New York City Fire Department and New York Fire Patrol; 71 law enforcement officers who died in the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City; [10] 55 military personnel who died at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia; [11] a U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
Seven people were killed and 24 others were injured. [5] It was a luffing-jib tower crane manufactured by Favco that was 200 feet (61 m) tall at the time of the collapse. The accident occurred when workers were attaching a new steel collar to anchor it to the building at the 18th floor, as part of an operation to extend the crane upwards. [ 6 ]
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. [1] in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.The explosion leveled two apartment buildings located just north of 116th Street at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, [2] killing eight people, injuring at least 70 others, and displacing 100 families.
Barclay–Vesey Building: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1927 Damaged Damaged in the collapse of 7 World Trade Center 0 [15] Deutsche Bank Building: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1973 Demolished Heavily damaged from debris from the collapse of 2 World Trade Center, was later demolished 0+ [16] Fiterman Hall: Lower Manhattan, New York City 1959 ...