A CRANE PULLED by an East River tugboat slammed into scaffolding beneath the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday night, officials said.
Twenty feet of canvas and sheet metal was damaged as the crane aboard the Thomas Dann hit the underside of the bridge at midspan just after 8 p.m., authorities said.
The canvas swaddling the bridge has been in place for about two years as part of an ongoing paint project, said Department of Transportation spokesman Seth Solomonow. “The top of the crane scraped a containment unit under the bridge,” he said.
The boat continued to float down the river without stopping, witness Sade Powell said.
Although there doesn’t appear to be any structural damage, Solomonow said, the bridge will be carefully inspected.
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