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Mak­ing Way for The Hills

Jan 8, 2014 11:23 pm
We said good­bye today to the fire­house on the south island as con­struc­tion con­tin­ues with The Hills project. Nei­ther the chill nor the ice-car­pet­ed site hin­dered the demo­li­tion, which began this morn­ing. Two of the hills, Dis­cov­ery Hill and Out­look Hill, will slope down and meet each oth­er where the sta­tion used to stand. This is the first demo­li­tion since the implo­sion of build­ing 877 and is anoth­er mile­stone towards com­plet­ing the Park and Pub­lic Space Mas­ter Plan. [cap­tion id=“attachment_7412” align=“alignnone” width=“300”]Clearing of the fire station will open up needed space for the Hills. The clear­ing of the fire­house will open up need­ed space for The Hills project.[/caption] The old coast guard fire­house was the base for FDNY oper­a­tions on Gov­er­nors Island since 2004, but not to wor­ry, the FDNY has a new base of oper­a­tions in the Island Ware­house District. 
The Machines at Work.
The exca­va­tors at work.
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