Conspicuous Construction

Or reconstruction.  Above, looking south a while ago from the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg Bridge.  Just below l-r: (1) near Courthouse Square in Long Island City.  And three Greenpoint sights: (2) on Kingsland Ave., (3) on Greenpoint Ave., and (4) at Greenpoint Ave. & Newtown Creek.



Just above l-r: (1) in the 90s on the Upper West Side, (2) behind the building up top, (3) rope work at 1st Ave. & 23rd St.  Just below l-r: (1) 10th St. off University Place, (2) WTC 3 rising behind 2 Rector St., and (3) more rope work at Lexington Ave. & 34th St.



Just above l-r: (1) 275 Madison Ave., (2) the bottom of 5th Ave. from Washington Square, (3) on 5th Ave. near 27th St., and (4) Central Park South from the park.  Just below l-r: (1) on 42nd St. at Vanderbilt Ave., (2 & 3) Brooklyn Bridge construction from Water St., and (4) Irving Place & 19th St.


And finally, below, on Broadway near 12th St. a while ago.

Chrysler Building + Crane

From up Lexington Ave.

Broadway & 54th St. Construction

With a less colorful skeleton going up behind it, above.

Across WTC & Downtown

Above, looking southeast across the WTC site; that's the US Realty Building in the distance above Tower 2 construction.  Below left, south to the West Street Bldg.


Above right, looking south from the West Side Highway above Battery Park City; the new 1 WTC is on the right.  Below, the pointy American International Building seen across town from near the same spot.

56th & Park Construction

The world's longest exhaust is still there, above right.

Construction

Above, next to the Chamber of Commerce on Liberty St. off Broadway.  It's been like that for a few years.

Left, a while ago at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, 40 Centre St.  Below, on 11th Ave. near 23rd St.

Newtown Creek Metro Biofuels 4

World Trade Center Construction

Tower 3, at the southeast corner of the site

The new 1 WTC (aka Freedom Tower, left) reflected in 7 WTC

Above and below, the top of the new 1 WTC from the Westside Highway.  The wind that day and the charcoal tufting of the tarp made the sight a little unsettling, especially lower left.

Three Sights

Pink sheet construction, Northern Blvd. at Queens Plaza
Summer shade, Rockefeller Center
Mountainous facade at 17th & Park Ave. South