Overview
- A private sanitation truck set off a chain-reaction around 6:30 a.m. near East 101st Street and First Avenue, striking double-parked vehicles before the truck and an unoccupied car mounted the sidewalk and triggered a shed collapse.
- Liang Ying Li, 75, was pronounced dead at the scene after the sidewalk shed at NYCHA’s Metro North Plaza Houses fell on her, police said.
- The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad is leading the probe, and no arrests or charges have been announced.
- The truck is owned by New Jersey–based Classic Recycling, according to WCBS, and the company said it is gathering information about the crash.
- Department of Buildings inspectors reported about 80 feet of shed damage with no harm to the building, and NYCHA’s contractor began reinstalling the structure.