What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY up! (Part 5 – July 2025)
July 1 – In the air and on the ground:
July 2 –
To build in a corner that adjoins another property, they had to carry lumber down the street and go through that other property’s parking garage entrance (at least that’s what it looked like to me) (Click all to enlarge):
(Note diagonal lumber on green-shirted guy’s shoulder behind garage gate in middle picture)
Higher-than-traffic-lights load:
Similar load with new orange component (What the heck is THAT for?)
(Uhhh…………the answer’s in the previous pic, dumbass.)
July 3 –
Me shooting before 6:30am? How’s THAT for dedication?
(Uhhh…….it doesn’t beat the concrete pumper driver)
The pumper seemingly reaches crosstown:
At this distance (2 blocks) and with so much construction in the way, it’s VERY difficult to actually SEE (and capture) wet concrete coming out of the tube, but these two shots do that………especially the top one, thanks to that orange component from yesterday (so THAT’S what it’s for! Thanks, guys, for keeping my photography in mind!)
The pumper’s arm reaches WAY into the unseen (from my apartment) northeast corner of the property as 3 concrete mixer trucks stand by.
Ever heard of a concrete Zamboni? According to Ai:
A “concrete Zamboni” is a nickname for a ride-on power trowel, a piece of construction equipment used to smooth and finish concrete surfaces. Just like a Zamboni smooths and resurfaces ice, a power trowel uses rotating blades to create a smooth, level concrete slab.
Here’s the one for this project, at rest and in use:
After use, it gets covered up in case it rains:
Smart move:
From a distance, I could see a moving creature in a green shirt and an interesting hat, carrying something large over his/her head. I started shooting – just in case – and sure enough, the item was tossed – hopefully onto someone else’s property (click to enlarge):
July 4 – No work today – well, not for everyone else anyway, so a good day for a perimeter walk……….or what’s left of it. In the last pic (east side, Main St), you can tell there’s not going to be much to see from the ground anymore as the structure rises (click some to enlarge):
Fortunately, I don’t live on the ground floor of my building, so I’ll be shooting everything else for a while…………
July 6 – An overall view from my living room:
July 7 – FIVE visible concrete mixer trucks standing by to service the pumper:
July 8 – Well, this was rather ominous-looking………..
……….until I zoomed back:
Concrete pumper and construction materials truck wait their turn on State St:
Distant concrete hose placements (but not a single visible drop of concrete):
July 10 – Not sure, but that might be an elevator shaft near the corner of Main St and Passaic St:
(NOTE FROM 2 MONTHS LATER: I visited the site on September 15 and found out that this is the stairwell. The elevator shaft is the structure to its left.)
Rebar and what looks like yellow wooden planks get carried all over the site:
July 11 – Watch your heads, guys:
What looks like a steel plate gets dropped into place:
July 12 – More luggin’ stuff around………
Another perimeter stroll (click to enlarge):
New Main St view (click to enlarge):
Looks like third-floor orange fencing is the only new thing to be seen in this view to the west (unless you want to include that ominous cloud in the center).
July 15 – More rebar and other interesting shapes:
July 16 – Another second-floor reachover:
I’m guessing you gotta master the power trowel before you get to ride the concrete Zamboni:
Dunno what caused this dust cloud, but gotta get a picture of it just in case……………
July 17 – All kinds of colors and shapes today:
July 18 – Same thing today:
July 19 – I’m running out of things to say, so just look at the pix:
July 20 –
Finally – something different! I saw this on the western perimeter (State St side). It appeared to be metal on a large metal sheet. I’m guessing it’s one in a series of plates in a grid:
I asked about it, but got no answer. Maybe I should ask (I)NGrid.
July 21
July 22 –
Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OORcOUPxUIc
July 23
July 24
July 25
July 26 – LOTTA good stuff in this one, including SEVEN images of visible pumped concrete (look at the workers’ feet – they’re all standing in several inches of wet cement), ONE image showing SEVEN cement mixers, power trowels, a covered, concrete Zamboni and a video of that UNcovered Zamboni being taken for what looks like a joyride:
July 28:
July 29:
July 30:
July 31 –
You may have noticed that – unlike the previous couple of months – there was no highlight worth spotlighting. This last day of the month may have had a subtle one.
It started raining in late afternoon. I saw a couple of flashes of lightning and heard lots more thunder.
As it was getting near quitting time, I expected the guys to call it a day.
But something else seemed to be going on in one area. Guys had been bringing out those yellow planks and their pace seemed to accelerate. It’s like they had a large quantity of these things and they had to bring them all out, come hell or high water………….or lightning.
I have no way of knowing if they got them all out or even if any of this was true, but it appeared to be very inspiring.
That’s why there are a whole bunch of pictures of them carrying these planks toward the end of this day. They just looked very devoted to gettin’ it done.
Is that a highlight? Take a look. If it’s all true, maybe…………
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