UPDATE: 1 person confirmed dead at the scene of the Tribeca crane collapse https://t.co/lFnHwrixXd pic.twitter.com/XBcQH10ZmV

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 5, 2016

Crazy scene! Crane just collapsed in TriBeCa #nyc pic.twitter.com/uUFjaYIlci

— Keith V Smith (@KVSaint) February 5, 2016

Looks like it was one of the large crawler lattice boom cranes (which has a boom lattice similar to tower cranes, so that explains my initial thought it was a tower crane collapse). It also appears that the crane somehow flipped over backwards (there’s photos showing the cab and crawler section flipped up on its back).