MANTOLOKING Another of the defining images of Superstorm Sandys destruction at the Jersey shore is disappearing as the state cleans up and struggles toward normalcy.

Works crews on Thursday began demolishing a house in the tiny town of Mantoloking that was washed into Barnegat Bay by the violent surge from the Oct. 29 storm. It was one of eight virtually intact homes that the storm washed into bays around the state, including four in Cumberland County; work on removing the others will begin soon.

But the house in Montoloking owned by David Roberts, a former mayor of Hoboken, was the most famous of them all, coming to rest 200 feet from shore in the middle of the bay. His house once sat not far from where the ocean cut a new channel that chopped the town in half during the storm, necessitating a massive emergency construction project to fill in the breach.

Today one of the unfortunate icons of Mantoloking and Superstorm Sandy is going to be dismantled, Mayor George Nebel said, moments before workers on several barges began tearing away at the house and depositing rubble on their vessels, to be floated away and eventually trucked to a landfill. During the storm, if we were standing where we are today, we would be standing in 12 feet of water. We hope this state will never withstand the sight of a house in the bay again.

Mantoloking was the hardest-hit Jersey shore community during Sandy; all 521 of its homes were damaged or destroyed, including 58 that were swept into Barnegat Bay, either whole or in pieces.

Demolition work on 50 houses damaged too badly to save should begin next week.

Robert Martin, New Jerseys environmental protection commissioner, called the demolition of the Roberts house an important day in the recovery of this state.

Two other virtually intact homes were washed into Barnegat Bay in Mantoloking, and one in Union Beach, a hard-hit blue collar enclave in Monmouth County, was washed into Raritan Bay. Four others in Lawrence Township wound up in Delaware Bay, virtually intact, Martin said. Those remaining houses should be removed from waterways within the next few weeks, the commissioner said.

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These homes, just like the Jet Star roller coaster swept off Casino Pier and sitting in the ocean off Seaside Heights, have become iconic images of just how powerful and devastating Sandy was and how this historic storm changed so many lives, Martin said. The removal of these homes marks a symbolic benchmark in the progress weve made as New Jersey moves into a new phase of long-term recovery and rebuilding.

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BELDING, MI After standing watch over the city for 123 years, the iconic Belding silk mill clock towers final days are winding down quickly.

Little besides the tower remains of a once-hulking factory complex that has undergone demolition since late March in the middle of downtown Belding.

Belding Mayor Ron Gunderson said the clock tower the focus of a two-year legal battle that ultimately failed to prevent its demise would most likely come down in the next two weeks, although that timeline could change.

How much of it can be saved is difficult to know yet, said Gunderson, the lone dissenter last November when the city agreed to let property owner Electrolux demolish the tower.

The Swedish appliance giant has sought to demolish the entire property over concerns about environmental contamination liability since reacquiring the factory complex in September 2010.

The November agreement ended a David v. Goliath-type lawsuit between the city and the company. It stipulates the top portion of the tower should be preserved, although the company is bound only by reasonable efforts to dismantle, preserve, donate and deliver the top of the historic structure to the city.

Gunderson said the wrecking crews are planning to move the top portion of the tower from the top of the highest window with a crane, but its hard to know whether the structure can survive the process intact.

They are not held liable if anything happens, he said.

Historic machinery that was part of the clock and bell mechanisms in the tower will soon be delivered to the city, he said. Detroit-area consultant Golder Associates and Midland contractor Bierlein Companies are managing the demolition work.

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THE camp of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano allotted P10 million to bankroll the demolition job against fellow senatorial candidates in Team PNoy who are doing good in the surveys.

According to sources, the fund is being used in a so-called Operation Plan Destroy the Queen, Prince and Princess targeting Senators Loren Legarda, Francis Escudero and neophyte Grace Poe-Llamanzares.

The source even identified the businessman Louis Biraogo as one of those who benefited from the fund after he reportedly agreed to expose the supposed property of Legarda in the United States.

The main purpose of the Cayetano camps operation against Legarda and two other top senatorial candidates is for him to be able to get the most number of votes in the May 13 midterm elections, the source claimed.

The demolition job is being carried out through text blast messages containing false information against fellow Team PNoy and even opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidates.

The camp of Cayetano wants to bring down the survey ratings of other candidates in order for him to get the number 1 post in all pre-election surveys and eventually translate to more votes for him.

The negative campaigning is aimed at bringing down those who are on top of the surveys in order for him [Cayetano] to grab the post, the source noted.

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India, May 4 -- Local residents clashed with police and Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) officials on Friday during a demolition drive along a 900-metre-long stretch near Ashok Vihar Phase-3.

A team of senior MCG officials reached the locality around 9am to demolish two houses, which were illegally constructed and had been razed by the MCG a few months ago. According to a high court order, no new construction is allowed on this stretch as this is a restricted defence area in proximity to the air force ammunition depot.

As the residents came to know about the drive by MCG, they rushed to the spot and staged a demonstration. They also pelted stones at officials. About 300 police personnel were deployed to control the mob, resulting in a clash. Many were injured in the stone-pelting and the police lathi-charge that followed.

Ashok Vihar residents also blocked the road leading to Sector 5 near the police commissioner's office, thus throwing traffic out of gear for hours. MCG vehicles were also vandalised.

Two policemen and an old woman were seriously injured in the clash and were admitted to the civil hospital in Gurgaon. DCP (west) Surender Pal Singh said, "The residents became violent during a routine drive and attacked MCG officials. Some residents have been arrested." He added that a case had been registered against residents by Veena Hooda, joint director of MCG.

Meanwhile, local councillor Gaje Singh said: "The MCG is being too strict with the proceedings and the residents are not being given an opportunity to be heard before demolition drives are conducted. People were protesting peacefully when the lathi-charge started. This angered the residents and they resorted to stone-pelting."

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

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The town continues to move forward with demolition of two abandoned buildings and is considering how to move forward on demolishing what remains of the former McCraes clam shack on Route 6.

The Board of Selectmen on Monday night continued hearings on abandoned buildings at 155 Gifford Road and 2 Russell St. Selectmen will discuss the matter further in 90 days.

Both buildings are in bad shape, but the house on Russell Street is particularly bad, with large sections of the roof gone.

The house on Gifford Road has been boarded up, Building Inspector Ralph Souza said. Im satisfied with that.

As for the house on Russel Street, things are more complicated since no one can locate all the people whose names appear on the deed.

I want to talk to town counsel about that, Souza said.

Other than the difficulty of finding all the owners, Souza said things are going well on Russell Street, saying the powers been cut off, the rodents have been exterminated and any owners who can be located have been served with papers announcing the demolition.

Theyve been put on notice by me and the fire department, Souza said. As for Gifford Road, Souza said action is forthcoming, not just for the house but for the land.

Theyre trying to sell it, Souza said. First, they have to settle a boundary line suit. Until they get the boundary set, they cant sell the property.

Selectmen questioned Souza about the once famous McCraes clam shack, likewise derelict.

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Not far from the fields farmers were plowing today, in a subdivision tucked away off Cincinnati Brookville Road in Butler County, the fight over a small parcel of land had the property owner fearing for his life during a recent confrontation with a demolition crew that had been sent there by mistake.

In a YouTube video recorded and posted by the owner of the demolition company, one of his employees tells Daniel Clemons, "I'll knock your (bleeping) head off!"

Clemons bought the land in 2006. His family showed-up with the deed and tried to give it to the police officers who'd been summoned. But the demolition crew, L and L Distribution of Springfield, Ohio, had a letter from Ross Township's administrator, Robert Bass, giving them permission to clear the land. So the police officers let the crew continue to take apart Daniel Clemons's life.

He believes he lost about $40,000 in property. What appeared as junk to some was Clemons's livelihood. He buys merchandise at auctions and then tries to sell them for a profit at flea markets. But now that merchandise, the shed where some of it was stored, and a motor home on the property are all gone.

"This was wrong to do to a person," Clemons said in a FOX19 Exclusive today. "What is to protect the next person out there from this happening to them?"

You see, the Clemons family's deed was right. Daniel does still own the property. It was the piece of land on the other side of the fence that he lost in a foreclosure. But according to the Butler County Recorder's Office, the deed to the parcel he still owns had a typo on it when a Cincinnati attorney submitted it to them --- a typo that's just now been discovered. One piece of property has a parcel number that ends in 0033. The one right next to it ends in 0032. Someone got them mixed-up and put down the wrong number on the deed filed with county authorities.

But Clemons didn't know that when the demolition crew showed-up. He just knew they had to be at the wrong place. In the YouTube video, he's calm. He's clearly upset and worried but he doesn't lash-out verbally or physically at the crew or the police officers who showed-up at least twice that day.

Yet at some point, the demolition crew had had enough of his being there. They order him to leave. He's standing by the Harley-Davidson motorcycle he was able to save when the unidentified L and L employee erupts.

"I do not know what happened there," Clemons said. "I was trying to get my bike out of the yard. The next thing I know, this guy's up in my face threatening to knock my teeth out. I mean, threatened my life. And, you know, I got my bike and left."

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The body corporate representing the owners of the Heritage tower in central Christchurch has applied to the High Court to have the building demolished.

George Horsburgh, chairman of the body corporate that looks after the interests of unit titleholders of the rooms in the hotel, said the owners were awaiting a court decision or date that would allow for demolition.

He believed most of the hotel furnishings, such as beds and television sets, had been removed.

There had been a cash settlement with the insurer of the Cathedral Square building, and the body corporate had received a payout.

Individual owners had yet to be paid for their properties as there was still a complicated process to go through to demolish the building and sell the land.

"The body corporate has decided not to repair the tower, and has made an application to the High Court for approval of a scheme which would include demolition of the tower and the sale of the underlying land," Horsburgh said.

The court application was because of the various ownership of the tower under the Unit Titles Act 2010, but it was a relatively routine procedure, he said.

"There are 129 units in the tower, a significant number of separate owners, a separate number of mortgagees, a significant number of other people who may or may not have an interest, and all of those people are required to be served with the court papers and so on," he said.

"It is a process that just takes a bit of time."

A nearby car park with about 161 spaces that was associated with the tower and the nearby Old Government Building, which is working towards a reopening, would not be demolished, Horsburgh said.

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MANTOLOKING, N.J. (CBS) Before Superstorm Sandy roared ashore on October 29, 2012, a two-story, cedar shake house owned by the same family for decades had a perfect view of Barnegat Bay in Mantoloking.

When the wind and rain stopped, that house was 200 feet from its foundation, and in the middle of the bay.

Today, demolition began on the home thats become an iconic reminder of the devastating storm.

With that, government leaders gathered at a shoreline news conference to recommit to getting the debris out of the water, so the summer season can be safe on the waterways and on the beaches.

Phase two of the recovery of the state is now underway. We are now rebuilding for the long term, said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner, Bob Martin.

The financial commitment is over a billion dollars just to rebuild the coastline.

When Sandy made landfall with such ferocity, Mantoloking was the leading edge of destruction.

About 60 homes were pulled into the storm surge. When you look at the outline of foundations and yards, neighborhoods look more like skeletons of shore life from last summer.

Its just a bummer, said Martha Graff, who grew up next to the house now in the water. [Theres] nothing that anybody could have done. The storm came through and [theres] nothing that anybody could have done.

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