Demolition of the “Tombstone at Ground Zero” just a month away.
More than nine years since it was damaged beyond repair by the collapsing World Trade Center, crews are finally almost done dismantling 130 Liberty Street, the last standing remnant of Sept. 11 destruction.
Officials of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency that owns the former Deutsche Bank Tower, say the last three remaining floors of the building will be torn down by mid-January.
“It’s actually quite stunning how low the building’s gotten,” said Josh Rosenbloom, LMDC’s Director of City Operations, noting that the once-40-story tower has been reduced to a height of less than 40 feet.
The agency had earlier predicted that the demolition would be finished by year’s end. But a crane malfunction in late October and difficulty cutting through reinforced steel and concrete on the sixth floor cost crews several days of work time on the site. Rosenbloom said there had not been any further delays in the last month, and that the agency now says the last steel columns slated for extraction would be gone around 15 January if weather is not an impediment.
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