Hurricane Sandy: Here’s a Closeup of the Crane Dangling on 57th Street
There are many fake Sandy pictures making the rounds. Here’s a real one. A friend of mine is riding out the storm in a hotel room on West 57th street. Here’s a closeup of the crane dangling from the top of the building from the hotel room window. That does not look safe.
[HT @skinny_matters]
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October 29th, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Hard for me to tell exactly what’s going on in this photo. Is that from the winds? Winds already picking up that much in NYC?
October 29th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
There are many fake Sandy pictures making the rounds.
It amazes me how many people think that Statue of Liberty getting smacked by a wave is real.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Quick, someone photoshop Justin Verlander wearing the Panda shirt in front of the Empire State Building and see if we can get Lisk to post it
October 29th, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I’m no crane expert (obvi), but I would assume that roof-mounted structures like this have some sort of “retraction” function that allows them to pivot like this.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:42 PM
all we need now are thousands of terrified japanese running everywhere and we’d have our found footage for cranezilla.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Wonder what kind of ratings this hurricane will generate.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Do they have marathons in Japan. They must be infuriated as American tourists yell Godzilla as runners fly past them.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
I’m not, thanks
October 29th, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Yes they do
October 29th, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see any dangling going on there.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:49 PM
True story. I love attending plays. Musicals or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local theater productions over the years.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
True story. I love attending plays. Musicals or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local theater productions over the years.
Is The Producers your favorite?
/sorry, had to
October 29th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
In other photos not taken by twinkle-toes…you can see the top of the crane dangling from the top (not sure if by design).
In this photo, the crane is directly in line with the support.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
In other photos not taken by twinkle-toes…you can see the top of the crane dangling from the top (not sure if by design).
Ah ok. So you’re saying a better angle would show the dangle?
October 29th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
I see that crane is mounted at the base and braced approximately at its third points against the adjacent building. I see no dangling there.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
East Coast pussies.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
The fake photos are a lot more interesting.
What an asshole.
Les Mis on Broadway was probably better than any movie I’ve ever seen in a theater.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:54 PM
You forgot the “not Coop’d”
October 29th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
I saw it in London, and my reaction was, “It would be a great play if they just dropped all the songs.”
October 29th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
when im president, musical theater will be banned and its participants liquidated. how dare you enable those cocksuckers. how dare you all…
October 29th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Duffy- Get your boy to throw on a poncho and get down to the harbor. Lots of pics and videos for the new TBL storm reporter. Also, you can then claim it as truly exclusive and not ruined by “NBCSports” or “ESPN.” No gif required
October 29th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Can’t wait for the trees to snap in the courtyard of my apartment complex. Not as much rain in Central NJ as in South NJ. Still, can’t complain about two days of working at home. Woohoo!
October 29th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
True story. I love attending plays. Musicals or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local theater productions over the years.
True story. I love going to art shows. Modern or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local gallery openings over the years.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
when im president, musical theater will be banned and its participants liquidated. how dare you enable those cocksuckers. how dare you all…
Written by someone who clearly has not seen Young Frankenstein adapted for the stage.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
“Hurricane Sandy” sounds like something starring Sandra Dee and James Darren.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:57 PM
written by someone who’s actually had to play the fucking music for those no-talent assclown narcissists-without-attention to sing their hokey, bullshit lyrics over. fuck musical theater. fuck those little shitheads.
south park guys are the only tolerable ones. and lion king…lion king was sweet.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:57 PM
lights flickering, but we still have power! backyard is slowly becoming a pond, which probably isn’t a good thing …
October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
I enjoy how Duffy assumes everyone know what he’s talking about here. like, “Oh yeah, THE crane dangling on 57th street.” you know, cause we’re all up to date on what’s going on in Manhattan.
for context, here’s a real story about it including an actual photo that shows the danglage: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/high-winds-collapse-crane-from-building-under-construction-in-midtown/
October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
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October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
True story. I love drinking. Heavily or otherwise. I’ve been to many dive bars and gutters over the years.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
written by someone who’s actually had to play the fucking music for those no-talent assclown narcissists-without-attention to sing their hokey, bullshit lyrics over. fuck musical theater. fuck those little shitheads.
You chose to be a music major.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
True story. I love drinking. Heavily or otherwise. I’ve been to many dive bars and gutters over the years.
Well done.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
Shut up!!!
*I dreamed a dream in times gone byyyyyyy*
October 29th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
I just bought tickets to see The Book of Morman in March. I’m excited.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
East Coast media bias.
/ Breesus’d
October 29th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
thank god for predator the musical…arguably the finest example of musical theater in existence.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
On the other hand, I have no interest in ever seeing a play.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
exactly…i chose to be an anonymous slave to my art rather than an attention seeking no-talent who wouldn’t be able to put so subtlety in their vibrato if it slapped them in the face.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Is this a metaphor for the Jets’ season?
/ Or is that “analogy”?
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
HILARIOUS!
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
You chose to be Beefheart rather than Zappa?!
/ Runs away
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
exactly…i chose to be an anonymous slave to my art rather than an attention seeking no-talent who wouldn’t be able to put so subtlety in their vibrato if it slapped them in the face.
So we’re in agreement then that musical theater is OK and you just like to complain a lot.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Theater is the ghey.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
if the bible’s taught us anything, the only appropriate response is to build and arc and start collecting animals.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
You chose to be a music major.
just tip them well ok?
October 29th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
yes.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
There’s a big difference between someone like Colm Wilkinson and someone who does acting and musing, to be fair.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Next time I’m in NY, I’ll definitely check it out.
I just hope Moleman doesn’t see this thread. Not after I keep calling him a snooty
October 29th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
my lights have flickered, but thanks to my 2009 stockpile of food, guns and gold I’ll be prepared.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
my lights have flickered, but thanks to my 2009 stockpile of food, guns and gold I’ll be prepared.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Or just snooty and not a snooty
October 29th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
I see no mention of the Truffle Theater. GOOD DAY SIR.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
why can’t the crane be snapping onto piers morgan instead of piers morgan snapping pics of the crane?
October 29th, 2012 at 4:04 PM
I figured you’d like musical theater just because of them. They, like you wiht analogies, are working on another level.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:04 PM
That crane could potentially do like 5 figures of damage, man.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Sandy is making kaiserwilhelm doublepost! You crazy monstrous bitch!!!
/Weather Channel’d
October 29th, 2012 at 4:04 PM
I love legitimate theater.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:05 PM
I believe you meant Cannibal! The Musical.
/ The First Nudie Musical gets props also
October 29th, 2012 at 4:05 PM
lol…naw, im just being a dickhead cuz im bored. musical theater aint my bag, but i can respect it when it’s pulled off well.
i just had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with the type of people that sign up for musical theater…those people are hellspawn. the entire lot of em. oh, and im salty that the largest crowds ive played in front of were for bullshit musical theater annd not the shit i practiced for hours and hours. so there.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
/NTTAWWI
October 29th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Uh, you’d better save those for the Nov. 7 rioting.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:07 PM
I also don’t think you understand the meaning of the word “closeup”
October 29th, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Uh, you’d better save those for the Nov. 7 rioting.
Unnecessary. Obama isn’t going to win.
/MikeNYC
October 29th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Dangling?
/Today’s dong pic?
//Coop
October 29th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
I really don’t see how Russell Crowe pulls off Javert.
/seen it waaaay too many times
October 29th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
We’re debating musical theatre on TBL. Someone alert ddmcd1974.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
what a trooper.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
+1
Watched this movie so many times in high school and college. Shpadoinkle
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Love the comment on the crane story:
That crane is almost as dangerous as a “Big Gulp”; Bloomberg needs to get on that right away.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
he’s forming a committee to deal with how to respond as we speak!
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
NY Times front page shows a crane that’s actually dangling. From the top anyway.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
legitimate theater
Oxymoron?
October 29th, 2012 at 4:10 PM
you would read that liberal rag, mr. new age castrati.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:11 PM
NY Times also has a live webcam which is updating it’s images every 60 seconds: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?hp
October 29th, 2012 at 4:12 PM
I used to work with a guy who co-owned/co-managed a theatre company. He always stumbled into work two hours late and took smoke/iPhone breaks every half-hour. He also bathed maybe once a week and stunk of cigarettes and piss.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:12 PM
It’s going to take a lot to knock Crane off the top of the most iconic Sandy images list, right?
/never forget
October 29th, 2012 at 4:12 PM
you would read that liberal rag, mr. new age castrati.
Everyday. Right after I read Abortion Supercenters Daily and the Flag Burning Press.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:13 PM
that crane is so gay i bet it sneezes glitter.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Colm Wilkinson is a bad-ass
/enjoys theater and musical theater
//rent can go suck 50 more dicks. Awful
October 29th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
/multiple series of high fives
//this is really where all my rage is targeted
///lion king was sweet
October 29th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Like this:
/ Wanking motion
October 29th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Milwuakee crane collapse during miller field construction
October 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
/donates $250 to PBS Pledge Drive
//fires up Les Mis 10th Anniversay concert
October 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Quick, someone photoshop Justin Verlander wearing the Panda shirt in front of the Empire State Building and see if we can get Lisk to post it
I’m over 35, man, I’m like the bridge between you and your grandma forwarding a chain e-mail two weeks after it was debunked.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
True story. I love masturbating. After watching pornography or otherwise. I’ve been to many adult bookstores over the years.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
The Van. The Snapper. Chief O’Brien.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Rent was huge during my last couple years of high school. All the pretentious, less talented pricks in choir wanted to sing seasons of love. I hated the people in my choir.
/snob
October 29th, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Res, i watched that a couple weeks ago. Fanfuckingtastic
October 29th, 2012 at 4:16 PM
I laughed
October 29th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Colm Feoreis a bad-ass
/regular theater’d
October 29th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
I’m like the bridge between you and your grandma forwarding a YouTube video of someone Gangnam Styling two weeks after it was already fucking tiresome in the first place.
Made more TBL-y.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Actual CBS Headline:
“Hurricane Sandy swallows presidential campaign”
October 29th, 2012 at 4:18 PM
colma colma colma colma colma colmeleon…
/still less gay than musical theater
October 29th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
$1,500 a month for a fucking efficiency? FML.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Err..rex…
Guy who played thenadier was awesome
October 29th, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Agree and /high five back
//I do enjoy Les Miserable
October 29th, 2012 at 4:20 PM
HOme to many actual dead people and awesome late-night bowling.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:21 PM
/fixed
October 29th, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Well played, WWoS
October 29th, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Also, Rent is the fraudiest thing to come out of the 1990s outside of American Beauty and Twin Peaks.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Also, Rent is the fraudiest thing to come out of the 1990s outside of American Beauty and Twin Peaks.
You shut your mouth about Twin Peaks.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Lease is much better.
/everyone has AIDS
October 29th, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Going to SF next week, never been, can’t wait… high up on places to visit, low down on places I’d live
/team land and no neighbors
October 29th, 2012 at 4:24 PM
Rent was huge during my last couple years living in San Francisco
Going to SF next week, never been, can’t wait… high up on places to visit, low down on places I’d live
What an interesting choice of words considering the city you are going to.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:25 PM
That’s a bit of a stretch… you’re trying too hard.
/everything okay at home’d
October 29th, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Where is the rent? I must have the rent! Dollars, dimes and nickels, I need them all right now!
October 29th, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Do you have free time? I can make a food recommendation…
October 29th, 2012 at 4:26 PM
That’s a bit of a stretch… you’re trying too hard.
/everything okay at home’d
No it’s not. I need a new football coach for alma mater.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Westside Story sucks. Gangsters breaking into songs is too much for me.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Ladies – While you were here discussing the theater, this crane thing went viral. There are literally a hundred better pictures that show what is going on than the one used here.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Absolutely… anything $25/meal or under I can get reimbursed for, but I’ll pay for it myself if it’s more and worth it.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
You are so gonna hate GoodFellas! The Musical when Scorsese gets around to adapting it for the stage in 2020.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:31 PM
But how many are a ‘closeup’ like this one??
October 29th, 2012 at 4:33 PM
I’m hoping this crane pic is the iconic image of this storm, because it illustrates how limp-dick the upper East Coast is about this whole natural disaster thing.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Miz already linked to one in this very thread: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/high-winds-collapse-crane-from-building-under-construction-in-midtown/ . It is a much better picture.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:36 PM
I’m hoping this crane pic is the iconic image of this storm, because it illustrates how limp-dick the upper East Coast is about this whole natural disaster thing. Nada
I’m with you. I take a tornado to and from work each day. Natural disaster? More like cheap transportation.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:36 PM
i saw among the thugs
October 29th, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Go here: Tony’s Pizza Napoletana
Long wait on a Fri/Sat 1.5-2 hrs…just put your name in (in person) and give them your phone number. They’ll call you…just hang around North Beach for a while (or walk down to the Gentleman’s clubs on Broadway).
My favorite pizza there is The New Yorker…it’s unreal.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:37 PM
gangsters singing > gangsters dancing like that
October 29th, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Gfunk -
I like this one. It shows how fucking tall that crane is. Holy shit I am not cut out to be a crane operator.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Crane kick > Whooping Crane > Frasier Crane > Ben Crane > This crane.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:38 PM
ZOMG!
October 29th, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Yeah that one is better, thanks
October 29th, 2012 at 4:41 PM
No, no, no. Pizza Orgasmica.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:43 PM
ZOMG!!!
October 29th, 2012 at 4:43 PM
gotta go seafood in sf, dont you?
October 29th, 2012 at 4:43 PM
i mean, sealfood
October 29th, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Spoken like a man that has never been to Tony’s
October 29th, 2012 at 4:45 PM
These pictures are making the rounds at work right now, being sent out by 50+ year old women, blathering away.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:45 PM
They have tons of different kinds of great food…you can get some stuff down at the pier…but I don’t consider the seafood compulsory.
Non-pizzeria edition: Wayfare Tavern
October 29th, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Shut up and keep filming.
/Brian Kelly
October 29th, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Both of Babar’s suggestions are on my list. I’m staying near the convention center, so if weather is decent, both of those plus Anchor Brewing is within walking distance.
I could be convinced for some sushi, but in my experience most good sushi is similar most places, unless there is some specialty type roll etc.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Heard great things about this place (although I’ve never been):
http://www.kokkari.com/home/
Make a reservation on Open Table.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:52 PM
One of the only things I remember about going to San Francisco was eating at this place>. The focaccia (sp?) bread was awesome.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:56 PM
fuck, whatever. i need to go home
October 29th, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Boxing Room another great choice in San Fran.
October 29th, 2012 at 4:58 PM
SInce you’re staying near the Moscone, I’d recommend Rickenbacker’s, but I heard it may have closed.
October 29th, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Oh my god, the hurricane blew a crane on top of a building ?!?!
October 29th, 2012 at 7:37 PM
True story. I love attending plays. Musicals or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local theater productions over the years.
True story. I love going to art shows. Modern or otherwise. I’ve been to lot of local gallery openings over the years.
True story. I love drinking. Heavily or otherwise. I’ve been to many dive bars and gutters over the years.
True story. I love jacking it. Righty or lefty. I’ve been to hundreds of pages on keezmovies.