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I should have known that they would lift it on this sunny morning, but I missed the hoist.

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I was surprised that they chose to lift it with visibility restricted. Update: Looks like they thought the same thing. It is now returned to where it was, I think the jargon is staging area.

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The crane is positioned to lift the beacon to the top of the spire. Right after I took this a cloud totally obscured the building.

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WTC1 shot from the East Village. Hoisting up the top pieces of the spire was scheduled for today, but the weather prevents.
An uncredited photo on Imgur of the top of the spire.

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Shot from Fulton Street the tip of the spire.

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Obscured by the surrounding cranes the spire has grown unnoticed by me.

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Early morning looking east on East Houston Street. We’ve been having interesting skies the past few days in NYC.

A view on East 10th Street near the St. Mark’s Church of the new glass and steel going up on Astor Place.

Moon-set and sunrise. WTC1 is in the background.

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At first I was fairly sure I could see the steel lattice that is the first part of tower, but it was hard viewing it through the construction lattice.

In this photo from a month ago you can see the base of the tower on the scaffold.

Now it is not visible at all from my tenement roof. I think I can make out the round holes in the scaffold erected to assemble the tower elements. So when the tower reaches high enough I should be able to see it below the holes. I need to check more often to see if I can capture the cranes in action, transporting sections of the tower.

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I think that cylindrical object on the platform (top right of the photo) is the first part of the spire.

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