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Safety costs of construction

WNYC reporters  Matthew Schuerman and Cindy Rodriguez talk about their recent investigation into building-related deaths in NYC, including a dicussion with Aaran Brashear, Chair of Brooklyn Community Board 7′s Buildings & Construction Committee.  “The Cost of Doing Business” on WNYC. Why doesn’t Community Board 14 have an equivalent committee?

NYT: Brooklyn Boy, 11, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver

Christine Hauser and Kathryn Carlson reported in yesterday’s Times – online editions, in any case, that Rondell Grant, eleven years old, was killed last Saturday by a hit-and-run driver. Brooklyn Boy, 11, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver. Grant was apparently killed after two cars sped past him – he then stepped into the street and was [...]

Developer of crane accident site is a former firefighter

In Today’s Times,  Anthony Ramirez  reports that the real estate developer of the site of yesterday’s crane accident is a retired New York City firefighter – with at least one experience of rescuing construction workers. 

OSHA accuses Deutsche Bank building contractors of 44 violations; criminal investigation is pending

When a subcontracting firm – the “John Galt Corporation” – is named for the protagonist in an anti-union, anti-government-regulator novel (Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead) it is to be hoped that at least one decision-maker would have thought it disturbing to put such a firm in charge of safety. (See David W. Dunlap’s “A Literary Footnote [...]

United Nations headquarters complied with New York fire code – during Eisenhower Administration

But not since the Eisenhower Administration. Now, 55 years later, Marjorie Bloomberg Tiven – the mayor’s sister and the city’s chief of diplomatic protocol, has persuaded the United Nations to do the right thing: In January, the city’s Fire Department found 866 violations of the fire code. By October, less than 20 percent of the [...]


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