Bankers Trust Building Construction Photographs 1910-11
Photo #B16380
Photograph courtesy The Skyscraper Museum
 
The demolition contractor has erected three stiff legged derricks on the protective staging to lift the large pieces of steel down through the holes in the staging to trucks waiting below. The white spot just above the Nassau Street entrance to the Gillender Building (curved stone pediment just above the level of the protective staging) is probably steam from one of the power-winches at the derricks.