One minute David Wichs was an average New Yorker on his way to work. But moments after rounding Worth St., he was killed — the victim of a giant crane that crushed him to death.
The 38-year-old mathematical genius began his Friday with a routine he’d done a thousand times before — an early morning exit from his Upper West Side brownstone, a 35-minute commute to the Chambers St. subway stop, and a five-minute stroll to his office in Tribeca.
Except this day, Wichs, a computer trader, never arrived.
A massive crane — capable of lifting 330 tons and with an operating arm that stretched 565 feet — toppled over in a horrific accident that sent debris flying and left a half-dozen cars mangled. Its violent downward arc crushed the hardworking immigrant from Prague to death.
As sirens wailed, the capsized base of the Bay Crane lay heavily on its rooftop at 60 Hudson St. Its long arm stretched across a path of mayhem along Worth St. near West Broadway.
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