Politics & Government
Watch the Governors Island Demolition
Brooklyn resident posts HD video of city's first demolition in over a decade.
A south Brooklyn resident took to the Snapple factory to get some high-quality video of this past weekend's Governors Island demolition, and the footage is actually pretty impressive.
Posting the video on YouTube and Reddit, a reddit user hilariously named reddit_user9001 posted the video shortly after Sunday morning's controlled blast.
It was the first controlled demolition in the city since 2001, according to the New York Daily News.
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The building brought down was a former apartment building, at one time home to the families of U.S. Coast Guard members stationed at Governors Island.
Now, the paper writes, the site will be home to a 30-acre park and some ball fields.
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Check out the impressions of another Brooklyn resident here.
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