Equitable on Broad Street 6

In the last post, the Equitable building had finally made it out of the ground, with steel columns sticking up through the timber foundation bracing like garden shoots coming up through leaves on the ground. As usually happens with steel-frame construction, things started moving a lot faster after that. Here’s January 24, 1927, with steel up to the second floor along part of the Broad Street side…if you can see anything behind that plume of smoke and steam from the engine running the derricks: A month later, the height has increased to the fourth floor and it’s now the whole Broad Street front: By mid-March, it was noticeably taller than the Morgan building to the north: And growing fast: this is one week later: April 8: And April 25: The narrow Wall Street wing lagged behind, which is relatively simple to do with steel. It makes sense: the logistics of that wing would make it slower to build, and why hold up the main block for the much smaller wing? On March 18, nothing doing at the…