PHOTOS: Courtesy Hotel Finally Gone

Section by section the slowly faded from the West Hempstead community over the past few weeks and now residents can finally say the seedy establishment is gone.

All that remains of the crime-infested hotel that residents had campaigned for over a decade to close is a pile of rubble where it once stood.

Photographer Lou Minutoli chronicled the gradual demise of the Courtesy from the first day demolition crews arrived at the site to final moment the last standing portion of the building fell.

Click through the photos above to see the Courtesy's demise from start to finish.

If you missed the video report of the hotel's D-Day  (That's the day crews first started tearing it apart as the community cheered.) you can still