That sounds pretty cool. Very specialized work just keeping the facades standing.
Since I’ve been here, several row homes have just collapsed.
It was some kind of government run program to allow the poor to own homes. I was talking to one fellow who worked for Con-Ed. His mother was on welfare and with some help from him, was able to buy the home. The mortgage was paid by him in the form of his “rent” to her. Basically, he bought the house at the bargain, gov’t. subsidised rate.
Wish I had paid more attention to the technical details of how those homes were re-habbed, but I had my own work to do in that neighborhood. It *did* look pretty cool though, watching a whole kitchen, pipes and wiring hanging below, flying over the facade to be lowered into place.
Ya know, the more I think about it, it was prolly the facades, back and adjoining walls that were what remained before those modules were dropped in. They were most likely just hollowed out shells without roofs.