New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there is no continuing threat to the city after a helicopter crashed onto a Midtown Manhattan building at 787 Seventh Avenue. New York City Police and Fire Departments are investigating. Photo: GettyA helicopter crash-landed atop a 54-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan, killing the pilot, clogging the skyscraper’s stairwells with thousands of evacuating workers and sending police and fire units racing through rainy streets to the tight-packed heart of the nation’s most populous city. People on higher floors said they heard a whining sound and then an explosion that sent a shudder through the building, which is on Seventh Avenue between West 51st and West 52nd Streets. The silence that followed was overtaken by the...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 10, 2019 18:18 UTC