The rigging company that was raising a tower crane in Midtown when it collapsed in March, killing seven people, neglected to inspect the nylon slings it used to hoist a massive steel crane component aloft and was thus unaware that one was damaged, federal regulators said Monday.
As planned, when the bridge was raised, a towering penis flipped off that symbol of Russian non-democracy.
Jack DJs from a tiny plinth raised on a tower of scaffolding, a high priest commanding a shapeshifting congregation.
He was raised in a tower block in Sheepshead Bay, in working-class Brooklyn, where he claims he "never saw grass" and opted not to spend time at the nearby beach because "I don't really get the beach".
At 11 a.m., the flag was raised on a tower with a clock face that has been stuck for at least 20 years at not quite half-past four.
A former beauty queen struggles to bring her act up to cruise-ship standards, but it's her failure to marry that rankles her mother most; a 13-year-old boy practices tirelessly while his father worries that he has raised a weakling; a towering onetime security guard faces challenges that may be more complex than lack of bookings and looming homelessness.
In a 2008 piece, he raised a 65-foot tower of Erector Set parts in Rockefeller Center.
While Mezher directed some men to kindle hookah coals, Rayyan directed others to scale a nearby water tower and raise an Iraqi flag.
After encountering an old man – seemingly the only sympathetic character in a world whose buildings are all ruined and reclaimed by nature – the voice guides him to a pedestal into which he inserts the Sheikah Slate, raising a number of towers across the land.
Walton's color commentary for a Clippers team that played like a sinus headache feels for a consecutive decade alternated between bitingly sarcastic message board speculation—"Why wouldn't Tim Duncan come here as a free agent, raising a mighty twin towers of powerful big men with Michael Olowokandi here in the City of Angels"—and outright trolling.
