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The Mohawk ironworkers, often nicknamed the “sky walkers,” were legendary crews who helped build many of North America’s tallest skyscrapers and longest bridges in the 20th century. Originating from the Kahnawà:ke and Akwesasne communities, they became renowned for their extraordinary balance, calm under pressure, and seeming fearlessness of heights. Often photographed sitting casually on steel beams or crane booms hundreds of feet above the city — sometimes even eating lunch there — they were i
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The Mohawk ironworkers, often nicknamed the “sky walkers,” were legendary crews who helped build many of North America’s tallest skyscrapers and longest bridges in the 20th century. Originating from the Kahnawà:ke and Akwesasne communities, they became renowned for their extraordinary balance, calm under pressure, and seeming fearlessness of heights. Often photographed sitting casually on steel beams or crane booms hundreds of feet above the city — sometimes even eating lunch there — they were i
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No harnesses. No nets. No fear. These were the ironworkers — many of them Mohawk skywalkers from Canada — who walked narrow steel beams 70, 80, even 100 stories above the streets of Manhattan. One wrong step and it was over. They riveted red-hot bolts by hand, balanced on beams barely wider than their boots, and ate lunch suspended 1,000 feet in the air like it was nothing. This is the real story behind the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, and every Art Deco icon tha
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No harnesses. No nets. No fear. These were the ironworkers — many of them Mohawk skywalkers from Canada — who walked narrow steel beams 70, 80, even 100 stories above the streets of Manhattan. One wrong step and it was over. They riveted red-hot bolts by hand, balanced on beams barely wider than their boots, and ate lunch suspended 1,000 feet in the air like it was nothing. This is the real story behind the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, and every Art Deco icon tha
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The Mohawk ironworkers, often nicknamed the “sky walkers,” were legendary crews who helped build many of North America’s tallest skyscrapers and longest bridges in the 20th century. Originating from the Kahnawà:ke and Akwesasne communities, they became renowned for their extraordinary balance, calm under pressure, and seeming fearlessness of heights. Often photographed sitting casually on steel beams or crane booms hundreds of feet above the city — sometimes even eating lunch there — they were i
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