The Ultimate Corner Office

Ryan Bradley, writing for CNN Money/Fortune:

From 1,200 feet the city sounds like a dull drone. Tom Gordon leans out in his seat and stares down, like a fisherman attempting to glimpse his bait. He’s looking at the bundle of steel far below. Gordon operates a slide crane on the 91st story – though, as the name suggests, the crane slides up as the tower gets built. The building topped out last week, so in a few months Gordon’s crane will come down, piece by piece, carried by another crane on the roof. For now, his operating cabin in the slide crane on the north face of 1 World Trade is the ultimate corner office.