As New Yorkers, we usually walk right by stuff like this. It’s one of the things in my head that never left me… the love of trucks and machines. I had a few Tonka trucks as a kid so when you see a monster like this crane taking up a new york city street, I stop and have a reflective moment. I talked to the crew guy on the street and he told me it’s lifting equipment up 300 feet and then the large boom on the top is swinging it over to the back of the building.