Plane crash on the east side.

I was coming back from an appointment on 57th and 5th, at around 2:40, going uptown on the east side. I was at 69th when the plane hit the apartment building with a loud thunder-like boom. It was just a few seconds. It was clearly a small plane (not a helicopter, as the radio news initially reported). And it looked like the plane was not aiming for the building. It seemed like something was already wrong with the plane, although there were no visible signs. I quickly got into a cab and headed for the west-side before the emergency traffic closed off all access.

Belated Update: The pilot was Cory Lidle, the Yankees pitcher. Columbia's own Janak Parekh (and others) contributed to the story break on baseballmusings.