Plumbing from the Top of the World

‘‘I wanted to be an air traffic controller. But I got into this, and I never would have imagined I would fall in love with it. When I’m up at the top and the wind is blowing at me and I’m on a lift six inches from the edge and I’m holding a piece of four-inch pipe or it’s thundering and raining or I’m testing the pumps to the water towers and I’m thinking, Hey, I’m just doing my job, it’s kind of cool.’’

Myriam Giraldo, Plumber, 10 Hudson Yards as told to Camille Sweeney for The New York Times, 2016; Photo by Jack Davidson

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