“NEW YORK — "Bang! Wham! Crash!" The racket that shatters the silence of the reading room in the East 96th Street public library is the sound of the Manhattan skyline falling--a bit of it, at least.
Next door, a 7,000-pound, hammer-wielding robot is pounding away at the top floor of an unoccupied apartment house that rises 31 stories, 12 more than zoning laws allow“
