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Construction workers sitting on a hoisting ball above the city skyline, ca. 1925. The Singer Building is in the background.
Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images
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Construction workers sitting on a hoisting ball above the city skyline, ca. 1925. The Singer Building is in the background.
Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images
Painters, using an electrically operated scaffold, called "spider staging," work on a cable high above the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge as part of a force of 50 who began a two-year painting job, May 8, 1954. The project was expected to cost $150,000, including $35,000 for 11,000 gallons of paint. In the background are apartment buildings along Riverside Drive, and below the workers are the West Side Highway and the New York Central Railroad tracks.
Photo: Associated Press via Alamy
Construction workers on the Empire State Building, 1930.
Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine via Art Institute of Chicago/Unsplash
Construction workers on the 23rd story of the Governor Clinton Hotel, ca. 1928.
Photo: Ewing Galloway via MCNY
Spiffing up the Queensboro Bridge with a fresh coat of paint, July 31, 1948.
Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP