Governors Island Apartment Building Demolished To Make Room For A New Park [VIDEO]

Yesterday, New York City officials imploded a massive vacant building to make way for a 30-acre new park.

The large building was located on Governors Island; it was an 11-story apartment building that formerly housed Coast Guard families. The Trust for Governors Island says the building has been vacant since 1996 and does not meet current building codes.

Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island,explained how the supplies from the building will be re-purposed to build the new eco-friendly park, "As soon as this rubble comes down and is safe to sort, it will be sculpted into new topography and a beautiful new sports field."

The building was the tallest building on the island, that is not considered historical.

The massive demolition implosion occurred just after at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, and amazingly took only about 10 seconds. The city Fire Department and the Department of Buildings oversaw the operation.

The shock of the controlled explosion was insane, being felt in parts of Manhattan and Staten Island. Check out a video of the implosion below:

To fully demolish the cumbersome 11-story, 115-foot building, crews stripped it down to the studs and rigged the foundation with 250 pounds of dynamite stuffed in some 900 holes.

Governors Island is known as a longtime military base. The island is located in New York Harbor off the tip of lower Manhattan. The city now controls the island and is redeveloping it, with some of it becoming parkland.