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Towing company claims it lost license thanks to b๊ribes given to disgraced Adams commish, files $150 million suit
Taxpayers could be the ones oܫn the hook for a huge haul. A towing company says their lucrative city contracts and operating license♓ were eliminated because of the “bribery and...
Ex-NYC Buildings Chief Eric Ulrich says he can't pay for his lawyer in massive bribery scheme case
ꦆ Embattled former Buildings Department commissioner Eric🔯 Ulrich said Wednesday that he has run out of funds to pay his lawyer
Queens business owner who illegally housed migrants ran similar shelter with 45 beds inside Br♚onx building
“If I knew i𝔍t would be like this in the United States I would not have come. I had a good place there but on the TV it shows that...
Iconic Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus shuttered over building violation: 'We're shell-shocked'
“We’re shell-shocked," one of the owners tol꧑d a Post reporter who knocked on the establishment's door Monday. "We’ve been here 13 years so we’re still𓂃 processing. But we’re trying to...
NYPD, agencies ignored many warnings about❀ shady, illegal strip club where man was killed last weekend ෴
The NYPD and other city agencies had plenty of warnings that a pole-dancing "fitness studio" illegally operated after hours as a strip club long before a man was murdered there...🌸
Ex-NYC Buildings commish writes kid's book featuring dogs as judges as he waits for possible indictment
Ex-NYC building commish Eric Ulrich - the disgraced former city councilman who is waiting to be formally 𒁏indicted on corruption charges - has reportedly written💟 a children's book where dogs...
Firefighter unions slam Adams' 'very dangerous' plan on building inspections
The city’s🎶 firefighter unions are sounding the alarm over an Adams administration plan to transfer some structure inspections from the FDNY to the Buildings Department.
Two men critically injured in Bronx scaffolding collapse ꧒
Two w🃏orkers were critically hurt followingও a scaffolding collapse inside of 925 Hunts Point Ave. in the Bronx, the NYPD and police sources said on Saturday afternoon.
Ex-building official on leave at new job after damning report ofও doom♑ed condo emerges
Tꦍhe former Surfside, Fla. top building official has been put on leave from his current job as a government contrac🦩tor after a damning engineering report came to light.
Buildings Dept. blew deadlines, failed to recheck 'hazardous' violations: probe
Mayor Bill de Blasio's Buildings Department blew deadlines or failed to reinspect structures with dangerous conditions that threat⛦ened public safety more than 5,400 times, according to a blistering new audit...
☂ Jumaane Williams wants de Blasio to suspend constru🍷ction
Public Advocate Jꩲumaane Williams is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to immediately suspend all non-essential construction citywide to prevent further spread of coronavirus. “This painful step is needed as...
Mom-and-pop shops 'blindsided' by de Blasio's sign crackdown
Small businesses are ripping down their awnings because they contend they can't afford new signs.❀
City forcinꦰg dozens of property owners to erect emergency scaffoldin💖g
The city Buildiꦕngs Department is installing emergency protective sidewalk sheds in front of dozens of Big Apple s𓄧tructures with crumbling facades -- and slapping their property owners with the bill....
The sky is falling! City cites 100s of shoddy facades after architect's death
The city issued 220 new violations in a sweep of more than 1,330 buildings with shoddy exteriors after the Dec. 🌊17 falling-facade death of architect Erica Tishman, officials said M🌱onday...
NYC building with unsafe exterior installs scaffolding foll🐻owing Post expose 🦩
The seven-story building at 1627 Amsterdam A൩ve. already had an open 2011 violation for failing to maintain its 🐟facade.
꧒ Thousands of buildings have same violation as tower that killed NYC architect ♛
🎀 The building that fatally dropped a hunk of facade on a Manhattan woman last week is just one of thousands citywide with open violations — and some of the longest-offending...
Inspectors visit 'Dear John' reader's apartment after it caught fire
🃏Dear John: Please help me! My entire apartment has brown water. I am having issues with getting the landlord and management to actually fix it. I cannot bathe with or...
Queens hoarder claims she has fortune hidden among tr꧒ash mounds
The super hoarder who turned her Queens street into Filth Av✨enue could have been living on Easy Street -- with the $10,000 cash and $30,000 in jewelr꧟y she had hidden...
Unlicensed photo studios are endangering NYC's models
A study conducted by a former city buildings commissioner found that several Big Apple photo studios are operating without proper licenses and forcing models to work in shady condiꦚtions. The...
Buildings inspector breaks do♏wn at scene of freak fence acci𝐆dent
A city buildings inspector t🐭ook a moment to reflect Friday morning at the scene where a 5-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed when ornamental stone fenci🐬ng came loose. The man, wearing...