From the October Issue: On a blustery morning in February, the members of a crane crew at a Tribeca construction site could feel the enemy at their backs. By around 8 a.m., wind gusts had picked up to 20 miles per hour. Workers decided it would be wise to lower the crane’s boom, whose red steel neck stretched a towering 565 feet above Worth Street. Sitting at the controls was a 56-year-old union crane operator with … [more]