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“A forklift on a boom reached into an open home to wriggle a wall back and forth. The wall finally came loose and clattered to the floor.

A little plaster broke away, but the most valuable parts — the studs — survived. And they were good old 2-by-4s, not the skimpy 1.5-by-3.5-inchers of today.

By raising roofs first, then plucking whole walls, crews dismantled two abandoned Glenville houses in a pilot project last month much more quickly and inexpensively than crews tore down two similar homes in Slavic Village last summer, working piece by piece, from the inside out…” (go to article)