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Search. Search. Appearance. Donate; ... New York City: ... On October 3, 1962, a boiler exploded in a New York Telephone Company building in Upper Manhattan, ...
George Peter Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries and offices.
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
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.
NY bakery says boiler breakdown, not politics, blocked Whoopi Goldberg buying cupcakes. Michael Dorgan. Updated November 15, 2024 at 3:14 PM. ... Staten Island, New York, bakery owner Jill ...
In 1983, the Bureau of Water Supply became the Department of Environmental Protection and the New York State Legislature revised the Criminal Procedure Law, part of the New York State Laws, to include DEP police officers. [2] In 1999, the DEP jurisdiction was extended to include the five boroughs of New York City. [3]
In 2003, New York City had roughly 61 city agencies employing an estimated 500 lawyers as administrative law judges and/or hearing officers/examiners. [13] Non-OATH tribunals that also operate in New York City include: The city DOF Parking Adjudications Division (Parking Violations Bureau) adjudicates parking violations. [14]
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.