Notes from All Over - High-Rise-Window Washers of Manhattan

The New Yorker
The New Yorker
  • 9 years ago
Thirty years ago, John McDermott and John Wren were young daredevils in need of union benefits, so they signed up for one of New York’s most dangerous professions: high-rise-window washing.

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