You have to love the snark via Mike Rosenberg, the Seattle Times reporter covering housing and real estate:
“Socialist hellhole leads nation in cranes, home price increases and pay increases”
Here is the data:
Seattle: 65 (1st for 3rd year in a row)
Chicago: 40
Los Angeles: 36
Portland: 30
Denver: 28
San Francisco: 26
DC: 27
New York: 20
Boston: 13
I am not sure how the data is assembled, but I think there may be 20 cranes on my block in NYC alone.
Most cranes in America, updated
Source: @ByRosenberg