Mayor Bill de Blasio says the person killed in the Lower Manhattan crane collapse was sitting in a parked car. The crane's boom landed across several cars, smashing their roofs, as debris littered the street. An employee at a New York crane company says an investigation is underway after a massive crane collapsed onto a Manhattan street, killing one person and injuring three others. Fire officials say one person was killed and two seriously injured. Fire officials say one person is dead and two others are seriously injured after a crane collapse in Lower Manhattan. The crane landed across several parked cars, smashing their roofs. The crane landed across several parked cars, smashing their roofs. The crane landed across several parked cars, smashing their roofs.