One of the only obstacles standing between construction workers and building the rest of a fracked gas pipeline in West Virginia earlier this week was a rusty, 1971 Ford Pinto with a 64-year-old teacher and grandmother of five chained inside.
Talk story about the abandoned portion of the West Side Highway, which is still standing until construction of the Westway, an interstate highway, begins.
The New Yorker, November 16 , 1981P. 48 Talk story about the abandoned portion of the West Side Highway, which is still standing until construction of the Westway, an interstate highway, begins.
By Mark Singer The New Yorker, November 16 , 1981P. 48 Talk story about the abandoned portion of the West Side Highway, which is still standing until construction of the Westway, an interstate highway, begins.
Home Depot, based in Atlanta, and other home-improvement retailers have faced sales declines from the long-standing construction slowdown and consumers holding back on do-it-yourself projects amid worry over jobs and home values.
"Our approach is to positively occupy places that are perceived to be dangerous," he says, standing outside a construction site, where local workmen clamber atop a structure of bright red shipping containers and rendered sand-bag walls, soon to be a new community centre.
Most of those issued in 2011 were for poorly maintained swimming pools and standing water at construction sites.
"I can remember," he wrote, "standing above the construction site for the Cross-Bronx Expressway, weeping for my neighborhood (whose fate I foresaw with nightmarish precision), vowing remembrance and revenge".
On Friday morning, Edward Gilyard, 49, was standing outside the construction site where he works, across Avenue D from the Lillian Wald Houses, when he felt something hit his head.
Standing amid the construction debris of his latest project, a dramatic Brazilian restaurant in Tribeca designed by Charles Morris Mount, Mr. Parlamis said, "The best description of what I do is organized chaos".
They said it sounded like an earthquake, an explosion or, as Jerry Silverman, a 56-year-old retiree standing at the construction site when the crane buckled, described it, a roar "like hundreds of lions".
