Newark house demolished

With an eye on fixing up 'his' part of town, Newark businessman Ronald Colacino made good his promise yesterday to 'tear down that house' at 302 West Union, which has been the site of every kind of illegal activity from drugs to prostitution, and, according to Colacino, even cock fighting.

As promised, at 1 p.m. Monday, an excavator owned by Empire Enterprises readied for the first bite into the structure. Several onlookers lined the street on a pristine day to watch the show. Empire Enterprises equipment, owned by Joe Bartucca, knocked the house into a pile of rubble to be eventually sent through a device known as a tub grinder, that will turn the structure into mulch. At approximately 4:30 p.m., the excavator burst a hydraulic line and caught fire.

Colacino indicates that he will landscape the lot for now.

Photo by John Zornow

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