Department of Buildings

We’ll leave the quipping to the NYC Department of Buildings on this one: “Well, this wasn’t in the blueprint.” A concrete pump collapsed as it poured concrete at a new 23-story building in Gowanus, landing precariously between the top of two buildings with the street in full view below, DOB said Wednesday. No one was hurt. DOB personnel issued...

The gym of a Brooklyn school has been deemed unsafe following Friday’s earthquake, officials said. According to the city’s Department of Buildings, on Friday, they conducted a structural stability inspection at 370 Fountain Avenue after receiving reports of cracks in the interior. Inspectors found step cracking and vertical cracks in the interior masonry walls of the school’s gymnasium and...

We talked with Professor Folarin Kolawole with the Dept. OF Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University about yesterday earthquake and what exactly happened. 

Prosecutors say New York City’s former top building-safety official took cash, New York Mets tickets, a discount on a luxury apartment and other bribes from a real estate developer, a restaurateur and others.