Chelsea, 16th Street Between Eighth and Ninth Avenues

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Looking across Eighth Avenue to the next block.  What the heck is going on over there?




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Here's Joe, who stopped me from walking farther and then kindly explained what the heck was going on.







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See that square object suspended in the background?  Actually it's a cube and it's a transformer being lifted to the roof.  Joe told me it weighs just a hell of a lot of tons.  He did tell me the exact amount but I didn't write it down, so just know it weighs a lot.

This is a pretty good photograph so you might want to enlarge it and admire it.



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See those red platelike things stacked on the truck bed?  Those are weights to counterbalance the transformer.  You would think the truck itself would be enough but no.



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The transformer cleared the roof and we were allowed to walk on.