Gothamist: Recent Notable Construction Incidents

Tim N.

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:36:51 -0500

Good job on this, Jen and Co. My friends, the union/non-union thing is a smokescreen. The issue is these buildings are going up too damn fast. It is imperative that these buildings get built and sold before the times change... and if you scan up a couple of stories (on the blog, not the building), you'll see it's starting. Millions of dollars will be spent on (real ugly) buildings that will sit half-occupied for a decade. To avoid that, corners will be cut. Safety procedures and common sense will be raced by. It has to be that way. From a dollar and cents standpoint, it's a no brainer. It's just that we'll all have to be wearing lead hardhats for a while.

TJ

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:27:29 -0500

...or the collapse of the construction elevator at the Conde Nast building in 1998 that killed a woman in an adjacent building

west side Michael

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:56:56 -0500

Don't forget the S.H.Green company on East 17th street where many Mexican workers fell to their death on Union Square I remember the year was 2001. The scaffold the workers were on were illegal and of course lacking proper permits. We never heard what ever happened there after a few days in the press. S.H.Green is related to Mark Green the so called wise guys on NY1 TV show. Perhaps this is why the story was sort of buried.

Goomba

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:16:18 -0500

How many of these were non union jobs?

edEx

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:49:25 -0500

*After a number of high-profile construction incidents in the past few years, the Buildings Department announced last month they would introduce stricter safety measures for high-rise construction* And when will this take effect? 2015?