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(I’m not sure of the author but I trust the content to be true)

The scaffolding was down by 11:30 this morning, as Ed Zimmerman
promised yesterday.

Aimee, Yigal, Rebekah, Donna & Sam, and a handful of other
die-hard Pale Male supporters were across the street from 927 by the
time I got there. Noreen McKenna of Brown Harris Stevens (which
manages the building) and engineer James McCosker (more on him later)
had been there earlier. Three guys from Preferred Restoration were
beginning the work of bringing the platform to the ground.
Poor freezing Frederic was out there filming, as he has been every day.
It was cold. Very, very cold.

The two Preferred workmen had to shovel some ice off the roof
to get to the platform. It's more hazardous up there than I knew:
there's no raised barrier on the edge of the roof at all--it's just
flat, right out to the edge. They have to crawl out there on their
stomachs, then climb over that large lip of stonework that juts out
horizontally from the top of the building.

The work last week, and this morning, would have been much
easier and less dangerous for them if they had been permitted to
reach the platform by going through one of the residents' apartments.
They had submitted this request through Hugo the super, but the
answer came back no. I am guessing they didn't ask Mary Tyler Moore,
who surely would have allowed them to use her window.
We learned that the "engineer inspection" story is a crock.

Building engineer James McCosker did not inspect the work and said he
never needed to. All of us, including Thomas Berry (who built the new
nest support) was told on Thursday that the platform needed to remain
up until Monday so that the building engineer could make an
inspection of the work. When the building refused to let anyone in
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to remove the scaffolding or at least
bring in the flapping banner and netting, they claimed no one could
go up until the engineer did the inspection. We will be looking into
this further.

As the scaffolding was slowly lowered down the building's
facade, Mary Tyler Moore and her husband, Dr. Levine, waved and gave
the peace sign from their 8th-floor window.
The platform was rolled into the service-entrance area on the
north side of the building after the banner and netting were removed.
The platform will be back up on the north side of the building
tomorrow to patch a little stonework, but this is unrelated to the
hawks and will be nowhere near the nest. Still, we'll have someone
keep an eye on it.

We stood on the corner, we three Kindly Ones, watching until
the last cable and rope were pulled up and put away. By this time our
feet and hands were completely numb, which I imagine is what put us
in mind of the Donner party (about whom we chatted to pass the time).
Aimee reports that Pale Male and Lola flew onto their new perch
and sat there at noon, about a half hour after the scaffolding was
removed! I hope Frederic got footage.