Monday saw the first construction fatality of the year, when a cinder block wall on a work site in Queens collapsed on top of three construction workers, killing one of them. As The Times details today, Hedilberto Sánchez was one of four brothers from Mexico who work construction–all, it so happens, on the same Read More
It was the artists who made modern-day Soho, and it looks like the artists will be the ones to unmake it as well.
The city has begun enforcing a little-known law, at least to those living beyond Soho’s tony cobblestoned confines, that requires these now-multimillion dollar homes to be occupied by actual working artists. You Read More
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Yesterday, the Bloomberg administration announced that a special sting operation–involving Craigslist and hidden cameras–had turned up a slew of illegal apartments in the city. The hope is this new investigative tool might keep landlords from being so damned shady.
But, just in case, the Department of Buildings released a set of 10 tips Read More
Wait. That’s just construction netting from one of the eight finalists in the UrbanCanvas design competition. The idea is to dress up the unsightly construction netting the Department of Buildings requires of all construction and renovation sites. The netting is a necessary evil, ugly but lifesaving, but the DOB, along with the Department of Read More
Mayor Bloomberg announced this morning that Robert D. LiMandri will be the new Department of Buildings commissioner, according to City Room.
LiMandri became the acting commissioner after former DOB honcho Patricia Lancaster resigned her post in late April. Lancaster stepped down amidst a storm of criticism about the DOB’s day-to-day functions following several Read More
