I reached the center of the demolition zone, where the loudspeaker was playing a recorded message in a loop, urging people to accept the compensation on offer and leave peacefully: "Don't listen to rumors!
Work crews moved into the warehouse's upper floors and the Death by Audio tenants, who remained until late November, often felt as if they were living in a demolition zone.
As for me and my memoir, I wrote my book while holed up in the Apthorp for almost two years, with my frisky, barking terrier, Lola, starting it right after the place had become a bit of a demolition zone.
More than a dozen of them mounted an unusual public protest in the heart of the capital on Monday against the demolition of art zones and the overnight attacks upon them.
The 1833 mansion, perched on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, has never been designated a historic landmark or otherwise protected from demolition in this commercial zone.
About the same time, the government prosecuted Mr. Nisanyan for illegal construction in a historic zone and filed demolition orders against his houses and several others in the village.
On the day Rachel Corrie died, she and other activists had entered a closed military zone to protest the demolition policy.
Black, meanwhile, has made several representations to Unesco about the demolition of listed buildings within the protected zone but his concerns were ignored.
Following Sandy, an army of contractors and volunteers descended on the flood zones to offer their services in demolition and mold remediation.
The simple wrecking ball was replaced with multimillion pound demolition contracts, explosives developed by Nasa, half-mile exclusion zones and demolition spectacles for all the community to watch.
