One of the final walls standing on the original building at the Rye Town-turned Rye Brook Department of Public Works site whose bricks are now valuable for replacement because they aren’t made anymore.
Excavator operator as seen through an open window on Friday, Dec. 7, the day work to collapse the original Rye Brook DPW buildings on the West William Street through to Ellendale Avenue site began.
On Monday, Dec. 10, excavator caves in the roof of the original DPW building constructed in 1938.
A pile of old truck wheel rims on the DPW site.
One man on the job from Tom Buske & Son Construction separates electrical cable from bricks during the demolition process. He operated four different pieces of equipment and admitted “I really could use another guy.”
Excavator attempts to eat concrete wall of the building added in the 1950s.
