1.   I took off my shoulder bag and binoculars and hung them on nails hammered into the slightly crumbling concrete.

2.   A man with a tire iron was whacking away at the crumbling concrete of the stoop, consulting with another man as he went along.

3.   Even worse, the narrow streets of crumbling concrete are choked with rusting cars and trucks that barely move from dawn until dusk.

4.   Now, cracks ripple through the foundation, and reinforcing metal rods are laid bare and rusty from crumbling concrete.

5.   Now, rusted steel rods and crumbling concrete are being replaced, and a new head will be cast for a majestic bald eagle on the facade.

6.   The ivy around the perimeter wall had been removed, exposing more glaring fractures in the crumbling concrete.

7.   Their clothes are tattered but they work with fervor, stepping around the path of a bulldozer plowing through the yard with chunks of crumbling concrete.