It seems that New York City will suspend all crane construction until June 2, and hire 20 new safety engineers in order to monitor hundreds of construction sites after two fatal crane accidents since March, the latest yesterday.

Acting Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri ordered the suspensions even though the city did not find any similarities between the cause of yesterday’s accident and a March 15 collapse that killed seven people.

The city will spend $4 million to hire about 20 “highly specialized engineers'” who “will make recommendations as they see fit,'” LiMandri told reporters a block from the Upper East Side site where a crane collapsed yesterday, killing two construction workers and seriously wounding a third. “Once that goes into effect, we will not wait for a report.'”

A large crane collapsed in New York City, Manhattan on Friday, killing one person and damaging an apartment building. It appears that one person died in the collapse shortly after 8 a.m. EDT, the New York City Fire Department said.

The crane smashed into “The Electra” apartment building, which is more than 20 floors high, on 91st Street and First Avenue. Television footage depicted how balconies had been ripped from apartments on the building as the crane fell.

The crane was working on a building under construction across the street from the apartment building.

In March, a giant crane also fell and crushed a residential building in midtown Manhattan, killing seven people and wounding more than 10 others.

In October, a crane dropped a container of debris, injuring several people.

“This is just unacceptable and we have got to figure out what happened here,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “I gather the vertical part of the crane stayed attached to the building the way it's supposed to. This looks like the top came off.”