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Midtown Crane Accident

Breaking: dead in Midtown crane accident, FDNY. Construction worker killed in freak crane accident at Midtown construction site accoriding to officials.

One Dead in Crane Accident at New York City Construction Site

A mini-crane killed a construction safety coordinator Friday as horrified hardhats helplessly watched the freak accident on a Manhattan street.

The man died at the scene of the…

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463 44th St

Builder: R.J. Pavert

Year: 1907

463,465, and 467 44th Street were developed by R.F. Pavert. Pavert worked in real estate and developed the three houses to be sold in the developing Temescal district, which was recently annexed to Oakland(1897). It is unknown who the first owners of the house were after Pavert. It was the residence of Katherine Kelly, a UCB student, for a time in the 1910s, but the primary owner was the Cappello family.

Antonio and Angelina Cappello came to California from the Veneto region of Italy, think Venice suburbs. The Veneto region experienced an economic downturn around the turn of the twentieth century and many Venetians emigrated. The Cappello's settled in Oakland's Little Italy in Temescal. Soon after they arrived their son Henry was born. Antonio Cappello was a boilermaker, cement worker and laborer. At one point he worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

Their son, Henry Cappello, studied economics at UC Berkeley and then joined the Navy and served on the USS Tunney in the pacific during WWII. After twenty years in the service he retired and spent the rest of his working life as a civil atorney. Henry died in 2010 at age 90 in Naples, Florida.

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