Business & Tech

You Can See Clearly Now, the Oil's Gone

Two weeks after the demo work began on the Castle Oil tanks, they are totally flattened. The last piece of green metal fell today with a satisfying crash.

Enjoy a new riverview...for now.

The big green Castle Oil tanks are totally gone and there's a clear view from the sidewalk to the Tappan Zee Bridge. The office buildings are still there "for now", said a worker, but not for long. Soon these too will have to make way for the apartment complex to come.

The menacing barbed wire fencing once had signs prohibiting photography, but now there's not much left to protect. Supervisors chatted nearby as I took footage of the final moments of the last tank wall.

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"Glad to see it go, hope they put up something interesting," said one neighbor to the oil tanks, Jeff Friedkin, who also shared some photos he took of earlier stages of the demo work.

"It's so exciting," said another neighbor looking on. 

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