Ironworkers Darryl Lazore, Eugene Tarbell, Jerry Jackson, Freddy Mitchell, who were all part of a “raising gang”, a group that worked together to build the Goldman Sachs Tower. Winter 2001. Jersey City, New Jersey. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.
Darryl Lazore setting a 28 ton column on the Goldman Sachs tower with his partners Stevie O’Donnell and Richie “Rich”. Jersey City, NJ. 2001. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.
Darryl Lazore, of Akwesasne, perched on a beam of the Goldman Sachs tower, probably on the ninth floor. Lazore worked for Cornell Clinic Contractors for most of his career in ironworking. Jersey City, NJ. 2001. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.
George Hare working on the construction of the Paul Smiths VIC’s Native Species Butterfly House. Circa early 2000s. Paul Smiths, NY. Photo courtesy of George Hare. You can read and listen to George’s full story here.
Former New York State Adirondack Park Agency maintenance supervisor George Hare works on a soffit restoration project in the workshop of his Bloomingdale home. June 2019. Bloomingdale, NY. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. You can read and listen to George’s full story here.
A worker from Thousand Islands Landscaping, which was owned by Hunter Horton, spreading a load of dirt from the back of a dump truck outside the Cornwall Brothers Store Museum. 2016. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.
Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. 1988. Near the Thousand Islands, NY. Courtesy of Robert Service. Service graduated from Alexandria Central School in 1969, and went […]
Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. Service was the director of maintenance & construction and bridge operations. Summer of 1988. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Robert […]
Brad Cosman did a lot of work on Boldt Castle in the 1980s and ’90s, working for a contractor and doing his own projects. He spent about a year and a half retiling roofs and doing terra cotta masonry. He had to make pieces out of concrete to replace the old tiles. Listen to Cosman’s […]
Elliot “Manny” Slate was born in Alexandria Bay in 1929. His father worked at Boldt Castle doing renovation work since he was 16 years old. Manny learned to follow in his father’s footsteps and eventually started working there as well. Listen to Slate’s story here!
