Nice shot! Of a landmark I used to pass on my right side going back home to North Jersey since the mid-50’s. Like a superstition one acquires, every time my Father would drive by it — without fail I had to pay my respects looking skyward to acknowledge it, like Catholics who cross themselves when passing by their RC Church. Even after having been in a MACK truck all day dropping off exports & picking up imports at the docks and piers starting in Red Hook then the rest of Brooklyn… that YALE tractor atop the building fascinated me. I wish that I knew it was being dismantled, I would have made them an offer. It’s kinda similar to the original Diana the Huntress atop Madison Square Garden II that was too large so (Gaudens downsized it) a financier relocated it to his home on North Shore Long Island. I would like to have erected it on my Route 23 property in Sussex County. It must be a nostalgia thing that truck drivers AND taxi drivers possess!?! Thanks for your thought provoking shots and tale — you’re VG!
*How about a story & photos on… the fruit & vegetable PIERS on the east side of the old “WESTSIDE HIGHWAY” overhead EL across from where they started excavating the WTC back in the mid-1960’s? Gee, the horn-honking, name calling, cursing, yelling, fighting that used to happen when stopping in a tractor trailer under the EL and backing up into the docks during rush hour! Very stimulating! And colourful!
Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 
Nice shot! Of a landmark I used to pass on my right side going back home to North Jersey since the mid-50’s. Like a superstition one acquires, every time my Father would drive by it — without fail I had to pay my respects looking skyward to acknowledge it, like Catholics who cross themselves when passing by their RC Church. Even after having been in a MACK truck all day dropping off exports & picking up imports at the docks and piers starting in Red Hook then the rest of Brooklyn… that YALE tractor atop the building fascinated me. I wish that I knew it was being dismantled, I would have made them an offer. It’s kinda similar to the original Diana the Huntress atop Madison Square Garden II that was too large so (Gaudens downsized it) a financier relocated it to his home on North Shore Long Island. I would like to have erected it on my Route 23 property in Sussex County. It must be a nostalgia thing that truck drivers AND taxi drivers possess!?! Thanks for your thought provoking shots and tale — you’re VG!
*How about a story & photos on… the fruit & vegetable PIERS on the east side of the old “WESTSIDE HIGHWAY” overhead EL across from where they started excavating the WTC back in the mid-1960’s? Gee, the horn-honking, name calling, cursing, yelling, fighting that used to happen when stopping in a tractor trailer under the EL and backing up into the docks during rush hour! Very stimulating! And colourful!