Sky-tastic

After being stuck at work late supervising an escalator repair in the Barnes & Noble at the Lucida, a severe rain storm rolled in, which only exacerbated the chaos in that 86th St lobby. When the work was done, I wandered around the store to wait out the storm. Shortly after, I returned to the lobby, saw that the rain had stopped, but saw some people outside looking up in amazement. I walked out and looked up and saw this (that's the Lucida on the left)...

Here's another one from a little later on:

Bird's Eye View

It took me a bunch of pleading with the building super across the street, but I finally got to the roof, approximately 250 feet up, looking down on the excavation in progress at the site of the future Lucida. The final pit would be more than 50' below grade, and directly adjacent to the 4/5/6 subway tunnel directly to the west.