Got it: just a request to the WWW - world wide web. Not you particularly - but thanks for all your great information.
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I’m currently looking at the Midtown skyline and thinking to myself how if we had a few 2000+ footers paired up with the current giants I could die happy.
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From Field Condition website: best view of current conditions I could find.
I see this has been done on this thread, missed that - sorry. It is so good we can show it twice… I don’t claim to know how long these things are ‘supposed’ to take to complete - but this final stage seems to be moving at a slower pace. I am wondering what the projected ‘occupancy date’ is on this project.
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US Cranes said the jump has been on hold, but they asked and they said it’s possibly happening today
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This is fascinating to watch; these last few steel beams being put in place at such a great height and on such a slender platform. This, to my mind, is the construction equivalent of watching a ‘high wire’ act - I find it “riveting”. Pun intended.
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Earthcam
Around 11 today, look close and you can see something big was lifted. Could be a tie beam to connect the crane to the tower
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Or perhaps one of the several steel beams that are needed to complete the top section. I am glad to see some activity there, whatever that is they have hoisted, so the completion of the steel skeletal structure is near.
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Yup, tie beam installed. I checked Earthcam and the crane does look higher
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I am guessing that is one of the longest tie beams ever in NYC. I do not recall ever seeing a crane tower at such a great distance from the top of the building where materials are being hoisted. However that is only a bit of ‘Probabilistic Thinking’ on my part - could very well be wrong.
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Thank god. Maybe this can still top out before CPT parapet
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Will this be the week 111 tops out?
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US Cranes has texted me and confirmed the jump. As I recall from the last sets of steel on 111 West 57, 3 boxes were constructed in a month, so this could top out around 2 weeks since the last 2 boxes to be construction are taller
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