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See: My Pics and Video from Shea’s Demolition

by Matthew Cerrone on January 26th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

I took a drive to Shea Stadium this morning, to see the demolition site first hand.

There is no way around it, it was tough to look at – especially the first moment, as I drove up and over from the Whitestone Bridge, only to see a dismantled shell of what once was.  It put a pit in my stomach.  The longer I drove around the job site, taking pictures and video, the more comfortable I got with the idea that, in a week or so, the building will be totally erased from existence.  But, seriously, that first image, wow, it was difficult to digest.  And, while pictures are one thing, seeing it in person is something totally different.

The following are five photographs that I took, followed by a short one-minute video from the demolition site:

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To check out the rest of my photographs, click here.