Thursday Doors – Crane Doors

It’s tough to schedule a doorscurrsion when you’re on the road 11 out of 18 days, which has been the second half of March for me. Of course, like all good little children-of-the-Norm, I have doors in reserve for these times. I was going to reach into the closet and grab one of those sets, when Mary suggested a different approach. Yes, this is Mary’s fault. In my doors post, At the Reservoir, Mary left a comment on the photo of the door of an earthmover:

“I’m surprised you haven’t done a Thursday crane door post. I bet it’s allowable. Something to think about…”

Come to think of it, I’m surprised too.

The good news, for me, is that I have a group of 140 crane photos on Flickr. Relax! I did NOT include all of them. My point is, that with so many crane photos out there, I was able to collect 15 or so to use, while sitting in my hotel room at night.

I don’t have much to say about these doors, other than the caveat that you may have to search hard to find the “door” on some of these, but I do think there is one in each photo. Keep in mind that you may have to peak through the glass to see the inside of the door. Or, you could just take my word for it. I did try to include some information in the captions, as to where the crane was working.

Thursday Doors is a weekly construction project, orchestrated by renowned virtual real estate developer, Norm Frampton. If you want to participate, share a door(s), draw a door, talk about a door; lift your load and swing the boom over to Norm’s site. Once there, check-in by looking at Norm’s doors, maybe leave a comment, and look for the foreman (identified by the blue frog). Click on him and lower your doors alongside doors from all over the world.

This guy is delivering sheetrock to a new hotel in lower midtown NYC

Working on the Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan.

This guy is ready for work in downtown Manhattan.

These cranes are hard at work near the waterfront in Boston.

This crane is working hard in Iowa.

These two guys were working in Washington DC.

The “ribs” on the aerospace magnet school always reminded me of this opening scene.

This is from when they were building the Academy of Science and Aerospace Engineering, a magnet school near our home.

Building restoration in Washington DC

This was a crane I saw outside my hotel in London in 2013.

There has to be a door visible on one of these, or in one of the reflections. These guys are working hard in midtown Manhattan.

When 4-Square was still a thing, I was Mayor of “Under the Tower Crane” behind Jacob Wirth’s in Boston’s theater district.

Also at the construction site in Washington, DC. Work is done for the day.

Done for the day in Washington, DC

This guy in in midtown Manhattan, on our way to the northern entrance to the High Line.

In Washington, DC about 4 blocks from the Capitol.

I see this guy several times a week at Dunkin Donuts. I am always jealous.

This was taken from the High Line in NYC. It looks like a toy, but this is real life – that’s just a really big TV screen!