Monday, November 12, 2012

51 Astor Place puts away its giant crane

You know that big crane over at 51 Astor Place...


On Saturday morning, workers disassembled the thing...





Another ceremonial step in the construction of the 430,000-square-foot tower... after workers packed it up...


... we jogged alongside, waving and tossing flower petals as it headed out of the neighborhood ...


Previously on EV Grieve:
51 Astor Place demolition begins July 1; 17 months to build new black-glass tower

East Village — the new Midtown?

4 comments:

pinhead said...

Please stop posting about this building so that I can continue to pretend it's not happening.

EV Grieve said...

@ pinhead

OK, but not until after I post the 12 additional photo essays this week...

Bowery Boogie said...

The LES is the Alderaan to this Death Star.

Mark said...

Really an amazing piece of work. Putting in such a giant crane is not an easy task. You need to take extreme care while putting it into place. Extreme care needs to be taken while doing such work.