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Developer and union construction workers. May 21, 2009

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May 21, 2009
Brooklyn, NY

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Topping off of roof of building at 80 De Kalb avenue.
A construction by developer Bruce Ratner whose Atlantic Yards project is causing very polarized opinions in the media and among some Brooklyn residents.

The workers here are all Unionized and 20 percent of the building units are for lower income people.

Iron workers, carpenters, concrete workers wear different colors hard hats.
There is a huge crane on the roof of the tower that lifts huge and heavy buckets filled with concrete.

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May 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm