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1/1/06

Scaffolding

Going back in time from 12/31/2011

Warren Building Scaffold
Warren Building Scaffold – The Warren Building on Broadway at 20th...
Madison Square Garden Scaffold
Madison Square Garden Scaffold – On the south side a while ago...
Waldorf-Astoria 2
Waldorf-Astoria 2 – Note the tiny men on the scaffolding above.  I see just one on the lower platform below...
1400/1410 Broadway 2
1400/1410 Broadway 2 – Black top of 1400 high above the little men on the lower scaffold More of 1400/1410 Broadway.  These photos are ...
Uncovering 1400 Broadway
Uncovering 1400 Broadway – They've cleared the scaffolding from most of the back sides of 1400 Broadway, featured here before. Above, from ...
Surrogate's Courthouse 2
Surrogate's Courthouse 2 – Earlier, statues like new teeth buried in braces Just above, the scaffolding's come down and, after their whitening, ...
Liberty Tower
Liberty Tower – No, this is not Freedom Tower, now 1 World Trade Center... This is Liberty Tower at Liberty & Nassau downtown.  ...
Scaffold Light
Scaffold Light – The surface of this building at the southwest corner of Broadway & 12th St. is just dirty enough to have defeated my ...
Racquet Club Scaffold
Racquet Club Scaffold – Bright day scaffolding on the Racquet and Tennis Club, at Park Ave & 52nd St...
Village Tower Scaffolding 2
Village Tower Scaffolding 2 – Closeups of scaffolding on the tower of Jefferson Market Courthouse at 6th Ave. & 10th St. in Greenwich Village. ...
Village Tower Scaffolding 1
Village Tower Scaffolding 1 – Scaffolding covers tower renovation at the Jefferson Market Courthouse at 6th Ave. & 10th St. in Greenwich Village. ...
Majestic 8th Ave Scaffolding
Majestic 8th Ave Scaffolding – Scaffolding on the 36th St. side of 519 8th Ave; the building's unveiled 8th Ave. face is below left.  There's ...
Veiled Church
Veiled Church – Another church under scaffolding, but not so ghostly.  This is Saint Jean Baptiste Catholic Church at 76th & ...
Black Mountain Scaffold
Black Mountain Scaffold – At Broadway and 37th St.  On a dark day above, on a light one below, with a closeup on the right...
Ghost Church on 14th
Ghost Church on 14th – Under the ghostly plastic, on 14th St. near First Ave., Immaculate Conception Church is being refurbished.  It was...
Helmsley Scaffolding
Helmsley Scaffolding – They've been working on the Helmsley Building, at the foot of Park Ave. proper, for a while; the photo above is from a ...
8th Ave Scaffolding
8th Ave Scaffolding – I am so slow that the scaffolding, up for months, may be down by now on this 1926 building at 520 8th Ave., near 37th ...
Surrogate's Courthouse
Surrogate's Courthouse – This already attractive building, at Chambers & Centre across from City Hall Park, gets its teeth whitened. Surrogate'...
Scaffold Camouflage
Scaffold Camouflage – Above left, it's the summer shadows that turned a Tribeca scaffold into camouflage. Above right, it's the junk behind ...
Full Frontal Scaffolds
Full Frontal Scaffolds – (Speaking of scaffolding...)  Frontal above, anyway.  The naked toothpick lattice gives all three of these a ...
Urban Shed Competition
Urban Shed Competition – Something Is Going On Up There; 38th St. off Sixth Ave. I got excited when saw a blurb about the Urban Shed Competition...
Saint Scaffold
Saint Scaffold – Sometimes interesting pictures can come from bad photos.  The two scaffold photos at the bottom in the previous ...
It Takes Two (Scaffolds)
It Takes Two (Scaffolds) – As an artist it's my job to decide which variations on a picture deserve to live.  But sometimes I like slightly ...
Soho Negligee Plus Puck
Soho Negligee Plus Puck – Gauzy scaffolding covers the building next to the Puck on Lafayette at Houston.  The pictures above and below left...
Dark Tower Scaffold
Dark Tower Scaffold – It took some work to pull what I saw from the darkness of these photos, of the McIntyre Building at 18th and Broadway, ...
Wrapped and Veiled
Wrapped and Veiled – A veiled scaffold and some construction wrapping.  Above, on E. 44th off 5th Ave. near Grand Central, a veiled ...
Top of the World
Top of the World – I doubt this modest building -- across the Long Island City end of the Pulaski Bridge from L Haus -- has a name at all...
Top 5 Scaffolds of 2008
Top 5 Scaffolds of 2008 – Above, first among the best, is the American Standard building on Bryant Park.  (I assume it's the company that ...
Brooding Scaffold
Brooding Scaffold – Some of my recent favorite scaffolds.  The brooding one above is from 38th St. off 6th Ave. [Later: Urban Shed...
Veiled Scaffolding 3
Veiled Scaffolding 3 – Something to clear the palate after all that ranting.  These are from Broadway above Union Square...
Veiled Scaffolding 2
Veiled Scaffolding 2 – Above, on Fifth Ave above 14th.  Left, Upper West Side from Central Park...
Veiled Scaffolding
Veiled Scaffolding – Construction is taking forever on the Greenpoint site above left, so they dressed it up with a bright blue veil, nicely...
Scaffolding the Rich & Famous
Scaffolding the Rich & Famous – A few summertime shots of scaffolding (since removed) for the rich & famous. Above, the swashbuckling rigging of the ...
Scaffolding 1
Scaffolding 1 – With the building boom here, scaffolding is everywhere. I've crossed the street to avoid some, and planned escape ...
Aesthete TV 6
Aesthete TV 6 – This gritty episode, the most suspenseful yet, is titled The Swarthy Man. On a cold and windy day the camera crew is ...