Demolition sets ?new chapter? for Dundalk

With cries of “Hallelujah,” and one flag-waving woman declaring Monday “Dundalk?s Independence Day,” Baltimore County residents and officials cheered as two blighted apartment buildings became piles of shattered glass and bricks.

The start of the county-funded razing of the crime-ridden Yorkway apartment complex began a “new chapter” in Dundalk?s revitalization, said County Executive Jim Smith and Councilman John Olszewski, D-District 7, who sat behind an excavator to take a “ceremonial first swipe” at the first of a total 56 buildings slated for demolition.