New Yorker contributor Adam Higginbotham talked with some of Manhattan's window washers about the state of the art technology used to clean skyscrapers for his article in this week's issue.
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The BEST window washer story is the washers at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh who dressed as super heros while cleaning the kids windows for Halloween. Cool guys!
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/2761815-74/hospital-window-matuizek-spider-allegheny-washers-bollinger-heroes-book-cleaning#axzz2JTWENfXJ
The only window washer story I have is kind of, well, funny? I worked and the Ford Foundation for a while and as some NYers may know is between 42nd adn 43rd sts bet 2nd and 1st avs and is a completely glass building with a huge atrium. The maintenance crew used to wash the glass walls while hanging in these large "baskets" that just hung by ropes on pulleys. One day after one of the crew had finished washing the entire 42nd street glass wall (the largest (which took all day) when he came into the reception area I called him over and brought him out to the atrium and pointed to the highest corner at the top of the building (10 stories) and told him he missed a spot. After he thought in horror for a secon his thoughts passed on to wanting to kill me, he then got it and we laughed as he waved a clenched fist at me.
What's the rate of injury in this job? Not a job for the faint of heart.
I have often wondered what a window washer's sense of humor would be like.
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