‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’ : the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire (…)

They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are finally being celebrated Poised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a (…)