The Deutsche Bank at 130 Liberty Street will start to be dismantled today. The 41 floor building's demolition strategy was approved in September, after many years of planning, toxin finding, and searching for human remains (the World Trade Center's south tower fell into the building). The Department of Buildings signed off on the permits this week, but the permits are only to remove the facade. The AP reports, "On Friday, workers will begin removing the glass windows and metal column covers that make up the facade of the building's top four floors. After that, the steel and concrete skeleton of those floors will come down."
The community is still worried about possible toxins still trapped in the building, but some people are relieved the building will finally be taken down. In its place will be one of the new World Trade Center towers as well as a rebuilt church.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation developed a video to simulate the deconstruction.
Photograph of the Deutsche Bank shrouded in netting by plemeljr on Flickr
