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AllWaysNY Photomat

12 June 2008

Mind your heads out there folks! On the Upper East Side, it’s just a couple of unbalanced, overlapping wood planks separating your noggin from all that construction equipment being stored up there.

Today Mayor Bloomberg reacted to a call for Federal inspections of city construction sites that utilize cranes and other construction sites the government might deem hazardous. The call to get the Feds involved originated in a letter from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (who represents much of Manhattan’s East Side in addition to Western Queens) to the [...]

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Sky View Parc in Flushing Takes Shape

Sky View Parc, the “most spectacular residential development in the history of Queens County”, has been steadily rising along the shores of the Flushing River in Queens as sales of the luxury studios ($400K) and 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units (up to $2MIL) continues via Halstead. The site will contain six residential towers and [...]

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Upper East Side Crane Tragedy

A crane collapse on the Upper East Side this morning killed two at the Azure condo tower East 91st Street and 1st Avenue. The crane had racked up numerous violations as the building was erected, and it seems that the failure occurred where the rotating platform on which the cab sits met the crane tower. [...]

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