It was razed piecemeal through the 1950s, and much of it sat as rubble until the early 1960s when the Park West Village apartments were built for middle-income residents.
James Gandolfini co-stars as a fellow hit-man at the end of his tether, while Ray Liotta's fall-guy is first beaten to a pulp and then shot in slow-motion, the bullets razing him through the car window as he waits at the lights.
"You had whole areas of the city razed or abandoned, which, through development of two-family homes, became the center of a renaissance," said Kathryn Wylde, former president of the Housing Partnership and now president of its parent group, the Partnership for New York City.
Due to the entitlement and fearlessness of many users of online media, a man's entire career can be razed to the ground through nothing more sophisticated than a few lines of text from an anonymous profile.
She was unconcerned by this evidence of squirrel interlopers until the day she went up to find the garden destroyed, the blueberry bush razed, the tomato plants eaten through.
The last well-known pavilion, Idylwild, built in 1914 and in use through the 1950's, was razed in 1969.
Had it gone through, the scheme would have razed vital neighbourhoods and built massive elevated roadways with an LA-style cloverleaf interchange.
Although the old walls have long since been razed, one can still enter the city through the Skifa el Kahla, a gated fortress.
Though it has been long since razed, the original Byker community lives on through the work of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a Finnish photographer and film-maker who moved into the old Byker in 1969.
However once it is razed and the case for it churns through the sluggish Greek legal system, there's a chance it can be built on.
