What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY Up! (Part 8 – October 2025)

OCTOBER 1

A truckload of wood starts off the month:

Actually, this monster has to be backed into the driveway that’s being shared by the project’s next-door neighbor:

Meanwhile, upstairs………

The State St. receiving area doesn’t remain empty for very long:

Actually, this one’s picking up for delivery to (another side street on the site? Another site? Who knows?

The huge DEI crane – which doesn’t get the chance very often – if ever – decides to pose with the Manhattan skyline…………especially with the Empire State Building:

And then does half a twirl for me……………..and look where the point ends up:

Later that evening, it’s still posing with Manhattan under the moon:

October 2

38 minutes after midnight, it’s still smooching the ESB:

Less than 8 hours later, work resumes:

Nice catch!

Turned away by the ESB?

I guess this arriving piece will fit in right about where the worker is (Duh! Why else would he be there?)

It must be a relief to finally get these stuck-to-concrete wood forms detached:

That’s quite a maze to walk on:

The car view from Passaic St:

OCTOBER 3

Small excavator prepares to be loaded onto the smaller truck in the street with the blue unit:

A minute later, a guy with blue drawers appears to be stuck between both units:

A guy on a ladder starts to work……..”nailed it!!”

Another worker plays wood-tug-of-war with an excavator on State St:

Colorful super crane fits right in with fall colors:

Loading onto truck:

Haulin’ wood:

I’m not sure, but it appears that a crane has lifted up a weirdly-shaped receptacle for workers to throw wood scraps into:

OCTOBER 4

I asked, but never found out what the smoke source was. Apparently, it was serious enough to warrant having a police vehicle there to block off a lane:

My guess is that concrete was being power-sawed. You’ll see that happening at a later date.

Two things that don’t go together:

(unless it’s a crateful of ladders)

The giant crane and Manhattan (you’ll see a lot of these – I think the crane longed to be there):

The ground floor (while taking an evening stroll on State St near Passaic St). Click these to enlarge):

OCTOBER 6

Morning wood:

Loading/unloading on State St (not sure what that guy in the first picture’s doing):

I love these odd wood shots:

A little more conventional:

A little later, I noticed part of an extremely tall crane on Main St, but had no idea what was going on, so……….time for a walk.

The first thing I saw was this sign concerning activity occurring on Main St the next 2 days…….and beginning at 7am? That’s when the site workers start their day (and wake me up). It had to be because of this crane:

I took that shot from the corner of Main and Passaic streets. All of a sudden, these two big wood-bearing trucks passed me………….but there was nowhere to park. Click to enlarge both:

I saw them turn a couple of blocks down the road, but don’t recall seeing them come back. I’m sure they did, but not near where I was.

Two more loads from the Main St crane before I turned my attention to Passaic St:

Lifting a load from a truck:

What’s the rush? (Click to enlarge next 3 images):

“Buldo”? They picked up the garbage at our house in Teaneck in the fifties! Still at it, I see, but on a somewhat larger scale:

The Passaic St block-long PANO (Click to enlarge):

OCTOBER 7

Chainway to Heaven:

Nice landing:

What are these guys building? It looks nice, but will it even be visible when the building is finished?

Coming in for a landing:

Teamwork:

OCTOBER 8

This is the first time I’m seeing cars parked in the building on the State St side:

I’m guessing that this guy’s not a fan of the crazy wood positioning in the next section:

Is that rebar and wires?

Strange way to converse:

Sun shade?

A look into the State St side:

OCTOBER 9

Same place – one night later:

Same State St side parking – different car:

More construction on the State St side:

Wood through wood:

Tricky footing:

Taming wild wood delivery:

The big crane and the big city:

OCTOBER 10

Early AM delivery:

Crane/City:

Man lost in wood maze:

Rectangles:

More wood work:

Underfloor hammering:

Man’s bigger shadow:

3 more crane/city shots:

Droppin’ boards:

Crane and building with unusual (temporary) red lighting:

More State St construction:

Delivery and deliverer:

Next-door Main St window dressing at State Farm (Fake & Jake – click to enlarge):

The action’s kinda dull on Main St:

Not so on Passaic St (Click to enlarge next 3):

OCTOBER 11

The State St side at night:

OCTOBER 13

What’s the attraction here for these guys?

(I could see it maybe if they were woodpeckers…………)

OCTOBER 14

More deliveries………….

State St work:

Prep for rain:

OCTOBER 15

Table-carrying:

A tip of the cap:

OCTOBER 16

You can see why there might not be much variety in the future:

(just a guess………….)

OCTOBER 17

Oh, look! Wild variety!

OCTOBER 18

It’s like day and night.

OCTOBER 20

Framers move frame:

OCTOBER 21

He needs a taller ladder…..

OCTOBER 22

Love these wood shots:

Not so much these State St shots…………..

(what’s he measuring?)

………except for these two:

This concrete power-sawing might have been the “smoke” we saw earlier.

OCTOBER 24

“I live on the wood floor.”

“I live on the concrete floor.”

“We live on the roof.”

Ladders – and nobody’s on them:

The big crane – before and during sunset:

BTW – what look like two strings of pearls under the crane in the middle sunset one are lights on top of residential buildings in Hackensack.

OCTOBER 25

Next to a full-fall-colors tree is the roll-up gate to the parking areas for next-door 389 Main, which kindly shares that area with this project (359 Main), so certain sections can be built:

The traffic cones are there to reserve spaces for small 359 Main excavators that need to work there.

Dilemma: if he tries to pull his pants up while he’s busy measuring stuff (see the yellow tape?), he might lose his balance:

Day and night shots of the big crane and Manhattan, including the Empire State Building and that odd building with the red-lit area:

You can see the Hackensack “pearl necklace” lights in both shots.

OCTOBER 26

Hmmm…………I wonder how many photos of their large crane that SEI has with Manhattan – and especially with the Empire State Building – in the background.

Well, here’s another one: