North Side eyesore coming down Thursday or Friday

YOUNGSTOWN — A dilapidated North Side house that had large portions of a brick chimney fall off its roof in a windstorm is coming down as soon as Thursday or Friday.

Paul Brown of Mineral Ridge said he was leaving 156 Halleck St., where he was raised and is still the home of his 85-year-old mother, on Tuesday when about half of a six-foot chimney at 160 Halleck, which is next door, crumbled and fell to the ground about eight feet from him.

It was the latest problem with 160 Halleck, vacant for almost a decade.

Slate has been falling off the house, and the structure has been stripped inside and outside.

After Brown’s complaint, the city is doing something.

Contacted by The Vindicator about 160 Halleck, Abigail Beniston, the city’s code enforcement and blight remediation specialist, said as soon as the electricity can be disconnected, the house will be demolished. That could come as soon as Thursday or Friday and by early next week at the latest, she said.

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