It's not everyday you see a giant mound of dirt in the middle of busy city street.
But that's what they've got in downtown Binghamton, where hundreds of tons of dirt have been dumped on the busiest street through the city's business district.

It's going to be used as a base for a big piece of demolition machinery brought to Binghamton from West Virginia. The unit is needed for what officials concede will be a difficult, precision demolition job.

Crews are supposed to tear down part of a seven-story, 115-year-old structure that partially collapsed three weeks ago -- without also taking down an attached building that's in poor shape due to years of neglect.

The huge earthen structure that's being used as a base for the machinery is about 15 feet high, filling the entire width of the street.

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