Lunch a top a Skyscraper in NY1932 and 2011, but in London

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous black and white photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller Center under construction in 1932, the site where the photo was taken. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on October 2 in its Sunday photo supplement.The copyright owner of the photograph, the Bettman Archive, did not recognize Charles C. Ebbets as the photographer until October 2003 (reportedly after months of investigation by a private investigation firm).However, authorship of the photograph, popular as a poster, was listed as ‘Unknown’ on many prints. The photograph has been frequently misattributed to Lewis Hine, whose earlier work documenting the construction of the Empire State Building in 1931 (see, for example, Hine’s Icarus atop Empire State Building) has a compositional, though arguably not thematic, resemblance.
So here it is :

ny photo 1932
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And the same photo taken in 2011 year in London city :
ny photo 2011
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