14 Nerve-Wracking Photos From High Atop Old School NYC Skyscrapers
14 photos
A group of steel workers standing on scaffolding 70 storeys high looking down over New York City from the RCA building, 1938.
Steel workers at work on the cities service building in New York, with the City Bank in the background, 1925.
A construction worker is hauled up to his place of work on a 30 storey skyscraper on New York's waterfront, 1890.
The Bankers Trust Building in New York City, 1931.
A construction worker does structural work, 1930.
A workman takes a siesta on a girder during the building of Radio City, the city of New York spread out below, 1933.
Construction workers on the 59th floor of the Pan American Building in New York. The Empire State building is seen in the background, 1962.
Harmonica playing steel workers perched on a girder on the 22nd storey of the Murray Hill building, New York, 1930.
Scaffolding workers twenty storeys above the ground during the building of the Telephone Company building at Vesey Street, 1925.
An American construction worker walking blindfolded on a construction girder twenty stories high in New York City, 1925.
A construction worker on the Pan American building sits on a girder above the New York streets, 1962.
Two construction workers on the Pan American Building standing on girders 59 storeys above the New York streets, 1962.
A window cleaner at work on the RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, in New York City, 1961.
Another view of the RCA Building window cleaner, 1961.