“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
One57 does for Central Park what One WTC does for Downtown, they both anchor their respective areas.
When 432 Park Ave is complete, that tower will join One57 (almost like twin towers), where they both serve as anchors for Central Park -- so no matter where in the city you are (even if you are in NJ), all you need to do is look and you will instantly know where Central Park South begins.
These towers serve as a visual compass for the NY'er in all of us.
Also,the crown can serve as a direction pointer.
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One57 Crane Repairs Will Begin Tomorrow, Block Could Open Monday Night
By Matt Chaban
November 2, 2012
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The crane that snapped back at One57 is still hanging precariously over Midtown, but the city is preparing a plan to secure the boom on the billionaire-beloved building that will commence tomorrow and should be completed by Monday night, Mayor Bloomberg announced at his press briefing this afternoon. “Tomorrow, work on securing the crane will begin,” he said. “It’s approximately a 36 hour operation, and the goal is to remove the vacate order to allow people in the vicinity to return to their homes and offices by Monday night. We’ve just got to make sure we do this in a way that doesn’t cost any lives.”
It has taken this long to get to taking down the crane because the city was studying the damage from every angle to ensure no further accidents during the recovery procedure. “We think we have a plan that’s been well studied by everybody,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “We’ve been on the crane with workers, we’ve photographed everything, we’ve studied the blueprints, and we think have a plan that will in 36 hours let us secure the boom to the building and then over the next three or four weeks, we’ll have to build another crane next to it to take down the pieces that are damaged.”
The plan calls for a worker to rotate the entire crane using a small hand crank, turning the damaged boom toward the building. Then cables would be used to secure the boom to 10- to 12-foot steel arms installed near the top of the condominium tower on West 57th Street, the people said.
Later, a derrick would be installed near the top of the building, and used to lower the crane boom to the ground. Another boom would be raised so that construction work on the tower could continue, according to a person briefed on the plan.
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
How about new crane? They have to fixed the crane right way. The crane got a badly damaged during Hurricane Sandy. I think they have remove the cranes.
Looking at some of these photos, you can't help but feel some of the people were waiting (hoping) for it to drop, like Kong from the top of the Empire State.
“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
then over the next three or four weeks, we’ll have to build another crane next to it to take down the pieces that are damaged.”
then, in the second article . . .
Another boom would be raised so that construction work on the tower could continue, according to a person briefed on the plan.
Aren't these statements contradictory?
I still believe a 2nd tower crane won't be necessary.
i am wondering if turning the crane to face the bldg will work? seems like the boom arm collapsing like it did may have damaged the cab too? i hope it will turn - we will see.
The Dangling Crane: A Sword of Damocles for the Modern World
By Paul Gunther
11/02/2012
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The Hurricane Sandy-toppled crane atop New York's tallest and most expensive developing hotel and residential tower known as One57 (i.e. 157 West 57th Street; the "One" apparently approximates just enough from an address perspective to excite the marketers...) shared the media spotlight right on cue, careening minute by minute as the region hunkered down amidst the competitive hysteria of cable and broadcast outlets alike for any news not previously deemed "new". No sanctimony intended: most viewers expected exactly that. Coming just days before a presidential election, narrative stakes rose ever higher.
If nothing else, the accident caused residents and visitors alike to look aloft at the building and consider its looming form. The constant throngs of smart phone image-makers alongside the barricades demonstrated best an unwitting and surely unwanted inspection of the building itself; nothing more than a well-deployed stararchitect imprimatur proving a disappointment despite its creative signature by Pritzker Prize laureate Christian Portzemparc. Regardless of one's taste or design predilection it is a banal overblown value-engineered needle honed from zoning regulation sleight-of-hand that makes all the existing towers around it shrink in its glassy shadow (black with a sprinkling of colored side wall panes in a nostalgic nod to the great early modernists). What does lend the building value is the view it grabs through sheer verticality along with a good address, especially as ambiguously distilled with its invented marketing moniker.
Change is due and welcome (as both leading presidential contenders remind us daily). Only a miniscule proportion of New York real estate is landmarked as with all truly dynamic global capitals. Making money from new construction that keeps pace with rapidly shifting tenant demand is the life force of future validity and sustained relevance in the global marketplace. But attention must be paid throughout to the shared infrastructure and systems of a functioning social contract. Growth is mandatory but not at the wholesale expense of the surrounding community; in that case homes and offices both new and old shoulder a risk that may not be evident at the outset of the approval process. Density is what's wanted and called for in the 21st century but there is a point at which it strains local capacity to a breaking point. There has to be some measure of balance between private gain and the commonweal such gain relies upon.
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
any picture updates of how they secured the crane ?
Usually when I take photos of this building, I'm the only one around who's even remotely aware it even exists. Enter the dangling crane, and it's Midtown's newest tourist attraction.
It was weird to see so many people taken photos of the building, staring up at it like it was the greatest show on earth. It made me feel like a shameless tourist...
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
i am very interested to how they remove the collapsed boom
You're not the only one. 35 years since I worked in high-rise construction but there's still that magnetism . .
Just wish someone would post final pics of Infinity in Dubai
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