A 180-foot construction crane boom plunged 45 stories to the Midtown Manhattan streets on Wednesday morning, injuring 12 — but not for lack of trying to prevent disaster by a worker on-site, a hardhat told the Daily News. A laborer operating the crane frantically attempted to put out the blaze on its platform at 550 10th Ave. near 41st St., to no avail, according to carpenter Marco Araujo, who ...