Trust for Governors Island Now you see it: Building 877 on Governors Island, which will be imploded on Sunday morning.Here’s something fun to do Sunday morning. Get up early and watch a building be imploded in your pajamas. That is â€" watch it in your pajamas. The building is not in your pajamas. It is on Governors Island.
It is 115 feet and 11 stories tall, made of brick, goes by the name Building 877 (though it used be called the Cunningham Apartments when it housed Coast Guard members and their families), stands at the south end of Governors Island and is the island’s tallest building.
On Sunday at 7:36 a.m., it is to be imploded â€" the first structure in New York City to be imploded by the authorities (hold your conspiracy theories, please) since July 2001, when a pair of 400-foot-tall natural-gas storage tanks were brought down in Brooklyn.
Building 877, erected in 1968 and vacant since 1996, will be cleared away to make room for a sports field.
Civilians will not be allowed on Governors Island to watch from up close, but the implosion will be visible from Battery Park in Manhattan, Liberty State Park in Jersey City and the Staten Island Ferry that leaves Staten Island at 7:30 a.m. It will also be televised, in the video player below.
The entire implosion, “from the word ‘go’ to the building coming down,†will take about 30 seconds, according to the Trust for Governors Island.
Enjoy.
