One winter he did demolition & construction work in Brooklyn.
"I did demolition work, cleaning out buildings," Singleton said with a shrug.
"Usually, an architect does demolition to create a blank canvas to create something new," he said.
At the same time, Mr. Rath said, "we did demolition as apartments became vacant".
The three women say they were forced to clean bathrooms and kitchens and wash windows while the men did demolition and paint jobs.
"When I had my accident on the job last December, my employer just dropped me off at the hospital," said Geronimo Lutsiang, 51, a Filipino who did demolition work on construction sites.
"She looked like she'd been in a head-on collision" after being struck by shards of window glass, but she had survived; they moved her to another nursing home in a nearby town, and now he and his crew are doing demolition and preparing lots for rebuilding.
In 2009 they did demolition on the site; then they restructured their loan, waiting until 2011 to begin construction on the Citizen, which is 95 percent sold out, with the top floors selling at $2,600 per square foot, far beyond their projections.
