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To build a prefab home, just stack the boxes.
02/10/2008
Building Houses Like Legos
THE social event of the season in Locust Point, a quiet enclave of tidy family homes along the East Bronx waterfront, took place just over a week ago when a crane lifted two 18-ton halves of a prefabricated house off flatbed trailers and stacked them like Legos on an empty lot.
The whole neighborhood came out to watch, sharing coffee and doughnuts while enjoying the daylong spectacle on Tierney Place, a two-lane street lined with manicured lawns.
“All the kids were amazed how that crane just picked it up and dropped it,” said Nick Virello, a contractor who lives down the street. “It went up like an Erector Set. It was extraordinary.”
Prefabricated homes made up of parts that have been produced in factories, then shipped in pieces and assembled on site, are hardly new to New York. But this prefabricated house on Tierney Place is believed to be the first in the modernist tradition to be erected in the city.
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