Cables and Girders collection-travel These skaters were their own

These skaters were their own silent partners on a wintery afternoon

Sewell Chan of The Times wrote in 2005

fresh air and sunshine brought new residents into what had once been a drab neighborhood where Cooper Square joins the Bowery

" The Times reported on the opener

Cables and Girders collection-travel These skaters were their own"A cordon of police reserves was posted in and near Times Square to protect the spectators of a giant feat," The Times wrote in 1926. "A modern Hercules, steam in his nostrils and steel in his muscles, was lifting an unprecedented height and an unprecedented weight, so far as building operations go. A truss 144 tons heavy was being hosted with groans and snots to its place over the auditorium of the new Paramount Building at Forty third Street and