By David Mccormack

PUBLISHED: 14:51 EST, 14 May 2013 | UPDATED: 02:14 EST, 15 May 2013

Demolition work has begun on one of the most symbolic structures left damaged in the wake of Superstorm Sandy's devastation of the New Jersey shoreline.

During the storm on October 29 last year, the Jet Star Roller Coaster had plunged off an amusement pier into the ocean where it had remained until Tuesday when demolition started.

Images of the Jet Star stranded in the sea have become synonymous with Sandy and had been used to sell memorabilia to raise money for storm victims.

During Superstorm Sandy storm the Jet Star Roller Coaster had plunged off an amusement pier into the ocean where it had remained until Tuesday when demolition started

Workers use a crane to remove remnants of the Jet Star roller coaster that have been left in the ocean after Superstorm Sandy hit Seaside Heights last year

The claw of a crane, center, tears through the structure of the Jet Star Roller Coaster in Seaside Heights on Tuesday

A spokeswoman for Casino Pier said the work to demolish the structure will take about four days with crews working around the clock.

The work began Tuesday afternoon not long after Prince Harry's visit to the Jersey Shore tourist destination of Seaside Heights to tour Sandy damage and rebuilding with Gov. Chris Christie.

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Ypsilanti Township has received a $654,000 grant for the demolition of Liberty Square and awarded the contract to a demolition firm.

Demolition is expected to begin June 1.

The Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees approved receiving the grant money and the demolition contract at its Monday, May 13 meeting.

I know residents and business owners and the school across the street have been waiting years for this to happen, Township Supervisor Brenda Stumbo said.

The contract was awarded to Bay City-based Dore and Associates, which Mike Radzik, director of the office of community standards, said provided the lowest bid and was the most qualified company.

The 151-unit and 17-building Liberty Square complex has sat abandoned since late 2011. It was largely vacant during a two-year process to clear it of its remaining tenants and for the township to convince a court to order it vacated and demolished.

It remains a drain on township and police resources. Radzik said 15 boarded up units were broken into last week and the township has to pay $100 to re-secure each.

The grant funds were part of a $97 million settlement banks agreed to pay the state of Michigan for the banks' role in the foreclosure crisis.

That money was earmarked for foreclosure prevention and blight elimination. The settlement came after a national class action lawsuit filed by Michigan, 48 other states and the federal government.

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LOVELAND -- A wrecking crew started knocking down the old Home State Bank building downtown Tuesday, and no one was more excited to watch the demolition than bank president Harry Devereaux.

"Oh wow! Whoa! Here we go," he exclaimed as a large excavator took bites out of the walls and roof of the 50-year-old building at 541 N. Lincoln Ave.

Devereaux recalled that when his late father, Jack Devereaux, bought Home State Bank in 1970, the building at Sixth Street and Lincoln Avenue was its only location.

Now Home State Bank has 11 across Northern Colorado, he said.

But far from being nostalgic, Devereaux seemed delighted with the demolition, which he drove down from his Fort Collins office to watch.

"This is actually kind of a happy day for me," he said as he stood just inside the construction fence. "This is an investment in downtown Loveland This is a good thing."

Home State sold the former bank property to the city of Loveland in 2007 for a possible museum expansion. Last month, the city sold it to Fort Collins-based Brinkman Partners, which will build a five-story, 70-unit upscale apartment building on the lot once the old structure is cleared away.

Matt Johnson, Brinkman's construction superintendent on the project, said demolition could take as long as two weeks, although by the time the American Demolition crew knocked off for the day, a good portion of the one-story bank had been reduced to rubble.

"This part's the easy part," Johnson said.

The building has concrete floors that are 14 to 16 inches thick and three vaults with reinforced walls that are just as thick, he said.

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WATERVLIET --Before a demolition crew takes its third swipe at the last standing remnant of the former St. Patrick's Church, close to 100 people crowded the sidewalk in front of the property Sunday for a unique farewell.

In a twist on the traditional candlelight vigil, they held a flashlight vigil aiming beams of light at the 137-foot bell tower that twice resisted the pull of steel cables meant to topple it last week.

I was here with a flashlight the other night and I noticed you could really light it up, Jim Di Seve, a documentary filmmaker from Troy, told NewsChannel 13. I mentioned it to a few people, and people said lets all come with flashlights.

Di Seve, who is chronicling the former churchs demolition and its effect on the community, said a part of the citys heritage is being lost.

Theyre tearing down a pillar of the community, he said. You can feel the energy here, and you can feel the resistance from the building.

Onlookers cheered when the cables being used to pull down the bell tower snapped Thursday and again Friday. Some called it divine intervention. Demolition efforts are expected to resume this week.

Our main concern has been, and remains, to do this work safely and with as little impact as possible to the surrounding community, the developer, Nigro Companies, said in a statement last week. This is why the pace of the work has been deliberate and step-wise and why we have used exclusively mechanical means to carry it out.

When the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany closed the church and sold the property to Nigro, the diocese said the building was physically deteriorating and required $4 million to repair. The developer is planning to build a new Price Chopper supermarket in its place.

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