Decades ago, a man had a large grand piano moved into his condo. It had to ride on top of the elevator. Recently, he moved out of that unit and found that the city building codes no longer allow this.
Then a bunch of complicated drama happened with the former condo owner, the condo management, and a piano moving company, and it all turned into a lawsuit.
It’s even worse than that, there’s a freight elevator in the building, but the other moving companies were either not told about it or not allowed to use it. The company that ended up moving the piano used the freight elevator. All of this could’ve been solved long before by just using the freight elevator, perhaps there’s more to this story?
I think so. Consider that Marcus was one of the owners of the building for many years. Why didn't he tell them about a freight elevator if that was an option?
Decades ago, a man had a large grand piano moved into his condo. It had to ride on top of the elevator. Recently, he moved out of that unit and found that the city building codes no longer allow this.
In Chicago, this was still done as recently as six years ago. When I moved into a tall residential building, my move had to be scheduled with an hour window in the middle so someone could move a piano up to a high floor. They wouldn't allow the piano to ride on top of the elevator and my stuff inside the elevator at the same time.
I wish the NYT would cut it out with this super interactive article format. It might make sense for some (very limited) set of things, but a photo album is not one of them
I wish the NYT would cut it out with this super interactive article format. It might make sense for some (very limited) set of things, but a photo album is not one of them
It's probably tailored for the NYT app.
The Times is one of the few real journalism sources willing to try new things. When they do, the HN crowd says The Times crap. When they don't, the HN crowd says The Times a relic and should die.
I'm a subscriber, and happy that it's at least trying. Some of the visualizations and AR stories are remarkable.
The photos aren't really even that good perspective wise or documentation wise.
They could have had little go pros tacked up all over the hallway and pulled video and frames that would have put together a better account. (Not that it would help them sell more ads etc but the presentation to your point isn't that good given what it could be).
This would have been much better as an NYT video. Their video team does a bangup job. It would have been interesting to watch how the movers handled that corner in realtime.
How much of this is really specific to NYC? Not sure if it's just the NYT an their NY centric view, but most of the stuff shown and talked about seem to be about moving pianos in general, and not about NYC.
It's a New York-based publication with most of its circulation and staff in New York, founded in New York by New Yorkers, headquartered in the NEW YORK Times building, and has "New York" in its title, and you complain about it having a New York-centric view?
The HN headline seems to have been modified, away from the actual headline: "The Miracle of Moving a Piano in New York City".
If I wrote an article with the headline "The Miracle of building a chair in Hawaii", and then described the normal process of building a chair which is location agnostic, wouldn't you bewildered as to why I included "Hawaii" in the headline?
I understand that they are based in NYC, I just don't understand why that's relevant enough to be in the headline. "The miracle of moving a piano" would've done just fine.
How is this going over so many peoples heads? It's intentionally clunky and confusing, much like moving a grand piano up several flights of stairs would be.
At what point does a grand piano become a fixture rather than a chattel?
I unboxed a foam king mattress at my new house once it was in the bedroom. It is literally impossible to get it out of that room without destroying it or I guess putting a hole in the outer wall.
Articles says that moves are 'rarely less than $350'. The question is really what did this 5 man move cost? What, if any, were the other bids? Realize NYT is not a business angle but would be nice to know.
The article contains the number of moves they do per day. It includes the number of movers needed. It includes the typical wage of these movers. From some back of the napkin calculations wages were probably at least $400. The moving company is also going to charge for the truck, gas and “overhead.” Then there are fees for stairs. Then you have to tip the 6 men. And lastly don’t forget the moving company needs to make some profit. I could imagine this is easily $1000.
To all designers: Present your website as if its a piece of paper on your desk. It is rectangular, it has a specific size and it can be manipulated by the standard means that the browser provides (scroll). You can have different sized papers for different screens.
What if every book you buy is one of those origami popup castles that explode upon opening a book? That would get pretty frustrating to read and understand the book. What if some pages move and shuffle unpreditably? What if it autoplays music without user invoking anything? That's essentially what you're doing with websites.
What are they teaching in Design universities these days?
Because a core theme in this story is the difficulty of moving heavy objects up and down stairs. I agree the web implementation is clunky (in a way that doesn't aid the overall reading experience) but I do see what they were trying for.
http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/11-26-19-preston...
Decades ago, a man had a large grand piano moved into his condo. It had to ride on top of the elevator. Recently, he moved out of that unit and found that the city building codes no longer allow this.
Then a bunch of complicated drama happened with the former condo owner, the condo management, and a piano moving company, and it all turned into a lawsuit.