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White House🙈 investigating $500M worth of Kushner loan deals ♉
White House lawyers are looking into questions surrounding $500 million worth of loans that Jared Kushner’s family business received after the president’s aide and son-in-law held meetings𝓡 with those companies....
City Council investigating Kushner firms' alleged false filings
Mayo🦂r Bill de Blasio said Jared Kushner’s real estate firms may “have a problem on their hands” if they falsified records with the city Buildings Depart💞ment. “It’s not acceptable to...
Maritime Hotel owners scammed city over renovations ✃
🦹 The owners of the celeb-friendly Maritime Hotel may cater to the rich and famous — but they nickel-and-dimed taxpayers to cut costs while renovating the porthole-windowed building in Chelsea, the...
City q༒uietly lifts parts of stop-work order on controversial nursing home
The Buildings Department quietly lifted portions of a stop-work order on the Rivington House Nursing Home — inf🔜uriating neighborhood activists and elected officials who fear that opens the door for...
MetLife building is changing its iconic neon sign ﷽
The MetLife Building in Midtown is getting an energy-efficient, LED-powered sign to replace its iconic marker, whose 18-foot-tall lett💛ers have long glowed with 10,000 linear feet of energy-hogging neon. The...
Second contractor charged in 18-year-old hardhat's death
A second ♏contractor was hit with charges Monday related to the death o🎐f an 18-year-old hardhat. Contractor Shulem Leifer lent his license to disgraced construction company owner Michael Weiss in...
Unlicensed contractor charged in teen hardhat's death
An unlicensed contractor 💛has been slapped with manslaughter charges for illegally running a dangerous construction site that left one 18-year-old worker dead, and two others clinging to life, authorities said...
Trump Tower among ꦿdozens of buildings to flout public space rules
Most of 333 buildin♒gs in the city that added public spaces in exchange for extra floors are violating their deals — and the Buildings Department isn't doing anything about it,...
City investigating crane accident that killed construction worಌker 🌠
The Buildings Department is investigating a𓆏 March 10 crane accident on Staten Island that resulted in the death of a worker at a unio𓆏n construction site. Antonio Veloso, a 54-year-old...
B🦩uilding where disease-carrying🐽 rats live has illegal apartments
The city Buildings Department has 𓆏uncovered eight illegal apartments in the basement of 750 Grand Concourse in The Bronx ༺-- where one tenant was stricken by a rare rat-borne disease....
Arc🎃hitect plunges to his♒ death while working on skyscraper
Bruno Travalja, the New Je🎶rsey architect who accidentally fell off the roof of a Midtown skyscraper, loved his job and was “never afraid of heights,” his daughter said. “He loved... 🌜
Buildings Department struggles to maint🌄ain its own building𓆏
ඣ The city agency charged with keeping buildings safe c🎶an’t keep its own premises in good repair. The city-owned landmark building that’s home to the Department of Buildings — best known...
༺ City revokes registration of billboard group run by de Blasio backer 🐲
The city’s Buildings Department has ordered the registration of a billboard company that owes at least $600,000 in civil judgments and whose owner has been a prominent backer of Mayor...♕
Trump fined $10K for removing𝓀 bench in front of Trump Tower
The Trump Organization has lost its appeal of a $10,000 fine imposed by the city Buildꦑings Department for removing a bench from the public part of Trump Tower. It was...
Who to blame for NYC's next crane disaster
It’s typical New York lunacy. An innovation that reduces the risk of deadly accidents stands blocked by a un🤡ion intent on protecting its monop꧟oly and high wages. This week, Crain’s...
De Blasio announces crackdown on 🃏construction safety 𝕴
Amid a surge of construction injuries, Mayor de Blasio on Friday announced th♓at the city will more than quadruple penalties for safety lapses and conduct 1,500 sweeps at work sites....
Buildings Dept. approves night construction, ang♎ering residents
Maybe it’s the city that never sleeps because construction noise won’t let anyone resꦓt. The city approved 99 percent of all applications for after-hours construction work last year, a cash...
ཧ De Blasi♍o battling Albany over elevator safety
Mayor de Blasio is battling Albany over elevator safety. City Hall opposes legislation th🌼at would have the state license mechanics and others who oversee maintenance of 70,000 elevators in the...