The parking lot of the municipal building increased by a couple spaces this week after a Public Works crew demolished the old Mitkof Sales and Service garage on Sing Lee Alley. The borough bought the building a couple years ago, and it was being used for dry storage, but the structure was essentially vacant, says Public Works director Karl Hagerman.

"It's been there for an awful long time, since the 50s," he says. "You never know what you're going to get into when you do a demo project, but the project went very smoothly."

Hagerman says his main concern was years of dust that could have ac...