2026 – What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY Up! (Part 13 – March 2026)
MARCH 3
Dunno what they’re doing, but it looks like they’ve got a hell of a lot of work in front of (and behind) them:
MARCH 9
Workin’ on the pump jacks (the vertical components of scaffolding):
Sun on the unpacked deliveries:
Way up on the upper Typar……….
MARCH 11
Givin’ me the finger!
I’ve got a whole series on these two guys on top of the elevator shaft.
Sweepin’ and steppin’:
I had to work fast on this one! All of a sudden, a balloon rises from out of nowhere (click!), rises above the guys (click!) and then I had to run to the other side of my apartment to just barely catch it (click!) – right before the wind blew it out of view (click to enlarge):
What does it say? “Happy Valentines Day” (almost a month late)
Well, there’s my excitement for March……..
From out of nowhere (just like the balloon):
Trading places (click to enlarge):
Sudden (and kind of dangerous) building tilt:
Hanging on for dear life when it tilts back:
“Is it safe to let go?”
“Might as well fix something while I’m here……..”
Meanwhile, his “friend” sneaks up the ladder (1), knocks him out (2), ties his hands behind his back (3) and wires his feet together (4)………..and look at his face – has he been gagged?
King of the Hill:
Back to work:
“Who’s doin’ all the work here?”, he wonders as he pulls something from his back (second pic………what could THAT be?):
We finish the day with nobody doin’ nothin’ in mid-air on a windy day:
MARCH 12
Snowy day, windy night
MARCH 14
Tackling the massive delivery job on the roof:
Trying to figure out how to jam all that roof stuff into those super-drafty windows:
March 15
Guys working on a Sunday!
MARCH 16
“I heard there was a nosy photographer out there somewhere…..”
“I think I see him.”
MARCH 17
Some new shapes to see…..
MARCH 18
Did the wind knock this over?
Look at those long, painted fingernails on this gir……..uh, person!
Pushin’ and tossin’:
Tubular tossin’:
Slowly shrinking the load on the roof:
More tube tossin’:
That very last picture is the shot of the day. It’s not easy timing and framing a large item being tossed like that from 2 blocks away (as he pats himself on the back).
More stuff to toss:
This last one is a PANO:
MARCH 19
More rooftop chaos:
MARCH 20
Don’t know what the rectangular-ish red thing is, but it figured prominently in two shots:
I’m guessing the 3 things on his head are freshly-cut because he appears to still have a saw in his hands:
Tube sucks green stuff out of his ear…………dunno what Big Red Riding Hood is doing:
Also dunno what that crane is doing:
Never toss a garbage bag with a big hole in the bottom:
MARCH 21
Where all those tosses landed:
MARCH 24
4/5 of a hardhat conference:
“Who’s gonna get rid of all this garbage?”
“Who cares? Let’s just measure it.”
“Lookit that guy below me with the upside-down broom!”
Piecing together (click to enlarge first one):
MARCH 25
From a distance, I thought that green jacket was a person, so I had to frame him/her properly:
Not sure if the bottom two people are alive.
Sawing in mourning (the first time those three words have been put together):
This shows the same piece, the same guy, and the same pump jack/scaffolding……
Here’s that guy again from a couple of pix ago (fool me once…………):
“Look what I sawed!”
I think the saw is part of his hand……..
Two guys in each pic…………….well, maybe not:
Wrangling a shiny green snake (and a petrified brown one…………click to enlarge):
Greenie gets called for an encore (click to enlarge):
MARCH 26
Wish I knew what this thing was…………..
MARCH 28
Still haven’t got those drafty windows fixed:
MARCH 30
Related pictures:
MARCH 31
I thought the guy on the left lost half his leg…………until I saw the double foot on his ankle:
What! No saw?
Something about this very blue-eyed guy looks familiar:
The last March delivery:
Too bad this isn’t a video – I could show you a rolling square:
A very windy day (and there’s that darn green snake again!):
Too bad he can’t roll the roll:
And here’s what happened when it DID get unrolled:
I hadn’t done a walkaround in quite a while, so that was today’s main job.
Half of these are large panoramics. If you see the word PANO, click it once to fully enlarge (Passaic St PANO takes two clicks).
The Main St PANO view:
Two Main and Passaic Streets corner views (only the second one is PANO):
Passaic Street PANO view:
Two other Passaic St images (the first one is PANO):
What is this – the day after Cabbage Night on Passaic St?
State St PANO view:
Inside view on the shared driveway between this project and 389 Main (on the State St side):
See you next month!
Bob, i love reading your updates and seeing the photos! Very entertaining way to monitor progress here!