By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 00:06 EST, 10 June 2013 | UPDATED: 00:07 EST, 10 June 2013 New York City officials have blown up a vacant building to make way for a new park. The 11-story brick apartment building on Governors Island 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. Scroll down for video Before: The building demolished Sunday was a former Coast Guard residence from when the military branch used the island as a base between 1966 and 1996 Time bomb: The building had been vacant since 1996 and was no longer up to current building codes
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Former Coast Guard residence vacant since 1996 was blown up Sunday morning
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New space will be turned into more park space for the island
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