Before the first presidential debate, another TV talking head assured his audience, "the Republicans were crawling out onto the 33rd floor ledge looking into the abyss".
When the old CBOT building was demolished in 1929, two 4.5 ST 12 feet tall gray granite statues of classically styled goddesses (pictured above) were moved from the second floor ledge above the main entrance into the gardens of the 500 acre (2 km²) estate of Arthur W. Cutten, a wheat and cotton speculator who went bankrupt during the Great Depression.
The two have been spotted in the nest of the 12th-floor ledge where Violet once lived.
The birders have an eye out for eggs in the nest atop a 12th-floor ledge at 927 Fifth Avenue, at 74th Street.
A man jumped to his death from the 80th floor of the Empire State Building yesterday, landing on a 72nd-floor ledge, the police said.
Since sometime around March 24, Violet, a red-tailed hawk, has been tending three eggs, white with brown speckles, in a nest on the 12th-floor ledge outside the office of the president of New York University.
The red-tailed hawks of Washington Square Park, Bobby and Rosie, are guarding an egg in their aerie on the 12th-floor ledge of Bobst Library, outside of the New York University president's office.
One protest leader, Arisman Pongruengrong, a popular singer who is one of the most militant of the red shirts, was lowered from a third-floor ledge of the hotel with a rope looped under his arms.
Choosing not to defy any peacock stereotypes, the bird had settled into a posh building on the Upper East Side, 838 Fifth Avenue, in a fifth-floor ledge with a Park view.
HENRY DUPONT, a man with seemingly better things to do, was standing on a metal ladder balanced on the second-floor ledge of a 120-year-old house near the Block Island ferry terminal.
For more than an hour, Violet, the red-tailed hawk who is sitting on three eggs on the 12th-floor ledge outside the office of the president of New York University, had a piece of plastic bag looped around her neck.
