"There's no chance." the doctor said."She'll be dead before the wrecking crew can free her."
In the early 2000s, the demolitions began; wrecking crews worked day and night tearing down, block by block, the shell of the past.
In a vacant lot under the trees lies a jumble of boards and tin roofing and chunks of concrete where a wrecking crew had already done its work on 12 of the houses in September.