What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY Up! (Part 9 – November 2025)
NOVEMBER 1
Crane delivering (left), Manhattan (right).
Another delivery: closeup and not:
Plane coming into Teterboro Airport (note deployed landing gear). You’ll see a lot of that this month:
Whole lotta wood:
If I recall correctly, this was left open overnight (check for squatters!):
It appears that 3 cranes were working Passaic St (but 1 and 3 might be the same) and click to enlarge:
Prepping a load for liftoff:
PANO shot from mid-block of Passaic St between Main and State:
Crane at Main & Passaic (Look at its wheels……about to tip over?
Another mid-block shot:
Getting close to State St:
AT State St:
NOVEMBER 3
Crossed cranes, delivery closeup:
Crane’s strap flapping in the breeze:
NOVEMBER 4
Yesterday, it was strap-flap – today, it’s house-wrap being installed:
I had to walk to somewhere on State St. On my way back, I noticed what the sun was doing on the building and took a quick shot:
And then I took a couple more photos between State and Main:
NOVEMBER 5
More Typar to put up…………but who stole my ladder?
OK – that’s better:
Gettin’ there………….
Top: Perfect!
Later: “Someone/something ate holes in the Typar!”
Much later: “Someone/something ate rectangles in the Typar!”
“Might as well clean up the mess while somebody else sticks his arm between the wall and the Typar for some reason.”
“I know what I’ll do! I’ll play Pickleball with someone!” (Note the net)
Sounds like a logical move……..
Sunset:
(at least THAT seems semi-normal)
NOVEMBER 6
Watch your step!
And remember to look both ways when carrying a big board!
Geez – a lot of that going on around here!
And be ESPECIALLY careful with your board toss!
Enter the wood maze……….
And while you’re lost in there, straighten some stuff out, wood ya?
More angled wood that caught my eye (yours too, I hope):
NOVEMBER 7
It’s all good because it’s all wood, all the time (and in the order I photographed them):
That last one where he’s feeding the wood panels into the floor wood shredder (not really)…………that’s a wide one, so give it a click, woodja?
Remember that mysterious “Plaza is closed” sign from 3 days ago?
Here’s the full visual story (click to enlarge – twice……and you’ll still need to scroll – it’s a biggie):
NOVEMBER 8
More wood stuff:
That last one’s got some strap-on-sap action going on.
Oh, look! Another Teterboro-bound private jet!
Historical side note: Hey – does anyone remember Arthur Godfrey? Did you know he recorded a single called “Teterboro Tower”?
Don’t believe me?
Back on the ground, I’m starting to see all-night lights on a couple of floors of this building…………….it’s almost like people are already living there:
NOVEMBER 9
This is what it looked like the very next night with Foschini Park’s blazing field lights on when there was a slight haze in the air:
I hope that no one in this building ever has to see those field lights directly.
They’re pretty brutal.
November 10
Visitors, workers and more wood:
NOVEMBER 11
Make sure your sound is on for the explanation:
Different aspects of large wooden planks:
Carried:
Standing:
Tilted: 
Dropped:
(It’s the most difficult shot to capture – that’s why there’s only one)
Nailed:
I thought that maybe if I took the first, second or third of each group of 3, that they’d line up as a sequence, but they’re all different workers.
I was driving up Main St, saw the building and thought I’d get a nice shot of it as I drove by, but – like my barber – I took a little too much off the top while trying to avoid the oncoming car:
Not wooden men, but men in wood (excluding the bottom two guys):
Our man Buldo, picking up the pieces:
You’re gonna see a LOT of plane/crane in the next couple of days:
Remember that NYC building I showed you a while back that had a bright red section? Well, here’s what replaced that red section – red, white and blue……an interesting new addition to the Manhattan skyline for Veterans Day (and the crane is visible, but not particularly well-lit):
NOTE: the “pearl necklaces” you see at the bottom of the pic are on top of two residential buildings in Hackensack………….an interesting bi-state lighting display.
NOVEMBER 12
More wood, plane and (posing) crane images:
NOVEMBER 13
Before we get into too many plane/crane pix, here are the other shots of the day:
Blocking a lane on State St for some reason: 
OK……….ready to fly on National CranePlane Day? (Didn’t Ed Kraneplane play 18 seasons at first base for the Mets?)
Here we go:
I told you there were too many………….and there are still a few more to go.
If you’re interested, all the planes are approaching Teterboro Airport (about 3-4 miles south of me) – the airport of the stars (they all fly in on private jets and take a very short limo ride into Manhattan).
NOVEMBER 14
WOOD…………..it’s everywhere – on big trucks, in the air, and forming new homes:
Lots more Typar to put up (my fingers keep wanting to type “Party” instead of “Typar”). You can also see glass doors and windows being installed:
NOVEMBER 15
It’s AV (Avian Visitors) Day at the site:
NOVEMBER 17
Lots of wood-pushing (mostly upward), a little wood-receiving and some more plane/crane activity today:
NOVEMBER 18
Lotsa ladders in the wood(s):
Ladderless wood:
More CraneWood:
Egad! Even MORE CranePlane activity!
But there’s something different in that last one (left side). For all you youngsters who have never seen one of these before, that’s a propeller on its nose.
The crane does its flex-and-stretch exercises to impress Manhattan:
Did anyone notice in the last couple of pictures that the crane is in a new position that I don’t recall seeing before? It’s now on State St, so I took this full-building shot to commemorate that fact:
I’ve gotta go out and shoot this new development. So here I am on State St, where it looks like the crane has been attached to a telephone pole for stability:
Getting ready to send the next load skyward:
The view near Passaic St on State St showing the building and crane AND the back side of next-door neighbor 389 Main St:
(The first double-rear-end photo of the two projects that I shot from the beginning – mostly from my living room).
Now standing on the corner of State and Passaic, I see an interesting shot of the south side of the project, but then I’m immediately cautioned to not come any closer:
So I start to head back, but there was one more shot I needed to take with the crane now detached from the telephone pole:
If you look really closely, you can see two guys on e-bikes who look like they’re trying to pull the crane back towards the telephone pole.
Didn’t happen.
NOVEMBER 19
The four images on the top look like they belong to the five on the bottom, so………………. (click to enlarge)
Another mish-mash of 4 images that seems to work:
And finally, a delivery quartet:
NOVEMBER 20
I’m starting to see lights left on overnight in the building. It’s like people are beginning to move in. Of course, they’re not, but the fact that the number of lights increases over time, does nothing to negate that feeling:
As I write this in December, all I can say is keep an eye on future images of this type. I think you’ll notice the same thing.
In this double image, the man on ground level seems to be waiting for the carrying cable (that no one up top is paying any attention to) to be lowered:
Still waiting…………….
Buldo backs into the shared driveway to pick up more debris:
Some more angled wood:
NOVEMBER 22
Slim pickings on a day when I’ll be shooting a Tommy James and the Shondells concert (HAD to get that in there – I don’t really do much rock stuff anymore):
NOVEMBER 24
Working around the elevator (I think):
Catching a delivery:
What’s cookin’?
Street-level deliveries:
Love those wood angles!
NOVEMBER 25
A couple of new “tenants”?
Top Pic: Bad view
Lower Pic: Cleaning his toenails with a drill
(Hey – it could be!)
(Not bloody likely, Bob.)
Last two shots before I go for a walk:
On Passaic St, site workers stand around a hole in the street:
(No idea what that’s about)
Meanwhile, on Main St……………
NOVEMBER 26
Cones in shared driveway reflecting from recent rain while sign in bottom right suggests what I should be doing:
Delivered (5 pix), pickup (1), and drop (1):
2nd-level work over 1st-level parking:
NOVEMBER 27
Daylight version of yesterday’s wet cones shot (no change in the message, however):
Closeup of pickleball net:
Is this now common at construction sites?
Same net and Typar apertures of residences whose tenants will have to put up with the sounds of championship pickleball:
NOVEMBER 28
All wood, all the time:
NOVEMBER 29
More deliveries:
Nailgunning:
The last 4 November photos:
I especially like the third one because the sun is shining on what I think may be the edge of the new roof AND right above that is St Joseph’s Church on Palisade Ave in Bogota with other houses in that neighborhood, PLUS the high-rises behind the church that are actually a couple of towns away on the Palisades in Fort Lee/Cliffside Park – a lot to pack in from my living room in Hackensack.
This is my last post on this subject until next year, so Merry/Happy-Whatever-You-Celebrate and then have a Happy New Year!
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