It was startling, that day when Munich-based businessman Ernst Georg Hartner looked out the north-facing window of his condo at the lavish Jumeirah Essex House and found his Central Park view corrupted by a greenhouse-like structure perched on the ledge abutting his next-door neighbor’s apartment.
Perplexed, Mr. Hartner contacted the neighbor. And Read More
Manhattan real estate is an extreme thing. One morning the entire facade of a vacant five-story Tribeca walk-up will crumble, and four months later that building’s owner will put his Central Park brownstone on the market for well over $10 million.
After 71 Reade Street’s collapse during the Buildings Department’s Construction Safety Week in late Read More
Downtown’s ever popular Beatrice Inn was apparently too popular on Friday, April 3.
The city’s Department of Buildings shuttered the subterranean celebrity hangout at 285 West 12th Street in the wee hours of the morning after counting 163 patrons inside the roughly 2,000-square-foot space, according to the agency’s Web site.
That’s 38 bodies Read More
From the Associated Press (via Crain’s): "Due to high winds forecast for the area, the New York City Department of Buildings will be conducting spot inspections of construction sites to make sure all equipment is secured. The National Weather Service has forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph on Tuesday."
Even during these dreary times, the ambition that carries on in Manhattan real estate is practically Shakespearean. People who spend many millions of dollars on a chunk of luxury property one day seem to believe that chunk will be sellable the next for many millions more.
On Aug. 11, a limited liability corporation controlled Read More
The city’s Department of Investigation and the New York District Attorney’s office just announced the arrest of a high-ranking crane inspector for bribery and tampering with public records.
Defendant James Delayo, the acting chief inspector for cranes and derricks and a 26-year Buildings Department veteran, has been arrested for taking bribes in exchange Read More
Incredible. Another crane has collapsed in Manhattan, according to media reports, killing at least one person and wreaking yet more havoc on the East Side.
"The crane, which was apparently being used for a construction project at 354 East 91st Street, on the northwest corner of the intersection, collapsed onto the north facade Read More
The city will conduct an “intensive, in-depth assessment” of high-risk construction in the city, the Department of Buildings announced Wednesday, one day after commissioner ACTING BUILDINGS COMMISSIONER ROBERT LIMANDRI ANNOUNCES INTENSIVE, IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF HIGH-RISK CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
City Launching Comprehensive Analysis of High-Risk Construction Activities;
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Inspectors found safety violations on six tower cranes–those giant cranes attached to area skyscrapers–after searching all 29 currently in use citywide, the Department of Buildings announced today.
The six cranes, with another two registering administrative violations, were temporarily shut down until the errors were corrected.
Following last month’s Read More
The number of reported crane-related accidents at New York City construction sites rose from 19 in 2006 to 29 in 2007, and crane related injuries increased from three to nine, according to a Daily News investigation published today.
Based on the amount of incidents in the first quarter of this year and the Read More
