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[4] [5] [6] The first Buildings Department was created in Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including a Buildings Bureau and a Bureau of Inspection. [7] A citywide Department of Buildings though did not exist until 1936. [4]
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
Embattled former Buildings Department commissioner Eric Ulrich said Wednesday that he has run out of funds to pay his lawyer
The disaster, known as the Ann Street Building Collapse after its location on Ann Street, resulted in one death and seven injuries, and prompted the evacuation of neighboring buildings. The garage itself had a history of building violations since 1957, and was initially scheduled to be inspected by the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB ...
The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) is a department of the New York City government tasked with recruiting, hiring, and training City employees, managing 55 public buildings, acquiring, selling, and leasing City property, purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies, overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country, and ...
Dozens of homeless men were forced to sleep on floors and benches at an intake center in Manhattan on Monday night due to a lack of available beds, according to two local advocacy groups, marking ...
Four months after the dramatic collapse of a lower Manhattan parking garage that killed one and left five injured, the New York City Council is introducing a slate of new bills to address garage ...
The building housed 26 apartments on five floors that were connected by a central staircase, which filled with smoke early during the fire because of the open door. [3] While the building itself did not have any New York City Department of Buildings violations, apartments 5 on the first floor and 23 on the fifth floor had faulty smoke detectors ...