A crane crashed into a sixth-floor window of a Lower East Side building on Monday around 6:30 p.m. and then got jammed there. Firefighters took their time figuring out a safe way to extract the crane’s bucket from the Essex St. building without causing further damage or an even worse accident. Three hours later, the crane was removed from the window. The accident’s cause was chalked up to a crane malfunction. Photos by Clayton Patterson
