Window Washing Guide
§ FIELD NOTES

Field Notes

Reported essays. Original photography.

Rope-access window cleaners suspended against the glass facade of a skyscraper
№ 042
The men who clean the tallest building in the world
At 828 meters, the Burj Khalifa is a vertical city of glass — 24,348 individual panes that, together, would cover sevent…
A row of Brooklyn brownstones with stoops and tall windows along a tree-lined street
№ 043
A morning with a third-generation cleaner in Brooklyn Heights
Anthony Cassara is forty-three years old. He cleans windows on the same eight blocks his grandmother started cleaning in…
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