There, a building worker waited to take him up in a manually operated freight elevator.
"It's weird, being next to an empty lot," William Montanez, a building worker, said.
Finally, after 15 minutes, a building worker returned with the signed receipt and five singles.
The girl's mother, a building worker in Florida, used to send 1,500 pesos ($110) a week to them.
There are talks about coming apartment sales, and a sparse notation from 2009 about a building worker's being fired "for inappropriate behavior with a resident's housekeeper".
Hermine Braunsteiner, for example, had emigrated to America in the 1950s, married a building worker and moved to Queens, in New York.
His mother died from blood poisoning and his father, a building worker, was killed in a construction site accident, leaving him an orphan before his third birthday.
But the worst appeared to be over.For Mr Liu, a migrant from rural Anhui who has spent the past year as a building worker in Nanchang, victory came on February 5th, when he finally secured a train ticket home.
Eventually, a building worker boxed up the bird and handed it off to a falconer, Peter Richter, who took it off to Wildlife in Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, in Massapequa, on Long Island.
