Flagpole installation acrossNew York

Flagpoles in New York

Roof and plaza work in the five boroughs, lake-effect country upstate, and Long Island out at the end of it.

Wind here. From the Pennsylvania line to the Canadian border Eder's wind map puts upstate New York at 90 mph, and Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany and Ithaca all sit on it. The chart steps up as you come down the Hudson: 100 mph at Poughkeepsie, then 110 mph across Westchester and New York City, where the city's own building code also carries its own table, which an engineer checks when a permit is filed. Long Island is where the number climbs furthest, to 120 mph across Nassau and along the south shore. Everywhere else the shaft is settled by something the map does not carry: ice upstate, channelling and access in the city, salt and loose sand out on the Island.

• Upstate and the Southern Tier — Eder's chart reads 90 mph across nearly all of it. That is moderate, so the shaft is rarely the expensive part of an upstate job. The frost line is what costs you: footings run 42 to 48 inches down up here against 36 in the city and on the Island, and the hole is priced off that depth rather than off the wind.
• The lake-effect belt — Still 90 mph at Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and the map is not the thing to design against. A wet flag that freezes overnight puts a weight on the rope no wind chart accounts for, so hardware that will not seize, and a flag you can get down quickly, are worth more here than a heavier shaft would be.
• New York City and the lower Hudson — Eder's wind map puts the city and Westchester at 110 mph, with the mid-Hudson at 100 above them. Neither number describes a street between two towers, so downtown poles are sized for the buildings around them.
• Long Island — 120 mph across Nassau on Eder's chart, with the barrier beaches the most exposed of it, and salt the whole way. Heavy wall or Hurricane series, an anodized finish, stainless hardware, and a footing spread wider than clay would ask for, because the ground out there is glacial outwash sand.

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