The mast was used to lift materials during the construction of this building and was part of the urban renewal program of downtown White Plains which took place from the 1960s.
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Local Subjects
Engineering
Construction equipment
Buildings
City planning
Nineteen seventies
Nineteen seventies
White Plains (N.Y.)
black-and-white photographs
Note
Digitized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council as part of the Culture In Transit project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
This item was scanned as part of a community scanning day at White Plains Public Library held on December 12, 2015. Donated by Ed Steinberg.