Rear window

Oh, how I wish this was a post about one of my favorite Hitchcock movies...BUT IT AIN'T, BLANCHE.

See Jimmy's window? That's about the size of mine...BUT HIS IS INSTALLED

No, that big damn window is still a BEAR of a situation.
Here's the latest:
I spoke to Gerry, the building's super, first thing this morning. He said he was going to speak to his boss at the management company to get permission for the workers to hoist the window up from the interior courtyard up the side of the building to my apartment. There was no indication of how long this would take but he did say it might involve having to get permission from all the tenants above and below me. This sounds ludicrous on the surface, but the way co-ops work in Manhattan, you can't 'inconvenience' anyone in the building without giving them sufficient notice beforehand. Maybe someone would be throwing a swanky party and they wouldn't want to look out their view and see a thousand pound window going by, who knows? Anyway, this avenue sounds very time consuming.
So I then shot off an email to Guillermo, the contractor, to ask if there was ANY way the window could be brought up inside the building. Here's what he said:

We know that the window cannot be bring (sic) from outside with the glasses in place, it's to (sic) heavy to carry and to (sic) heavy to bring it up with a rope.

The window is to (sic) big to be bring by the service elevator.

We are not 100% sure that we can bring the window thru the stairs, we would like to try it. I can bring enough muscles to maneuver it .

Another option is call an iron guy and hire them to cut the window in two pieces and re-weld it once is upstairs. Then we'll have to re-glue the glasses after the window is re-installed.

We had finished installation of 4 windows and we are doing detail work around them.

I have the glass guy on board and I'm trying to convince the iron guy to help me on this. 

Tomorrow, we should have a concrete plan how the big window will get upstairs.

So that's where it is, maybe bring it up without all the glass panes in place (Steve says this is what is making the thing so damn heavy), OR chop it in half and haul it up that way, and then re-assemble it upstairs. UGH.

None of this sounds easy but at least it's a plan, right? 

Fun times. Fun times.