NY Post Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Buildings Department blew deadlines or failed to reinspect structures with dangerous conditions that threa...

From the Queens Chronicle : When Mary Ann Giammarco sees the empty house at 73-36 179 St. in Fresh Meadows, she isn’t happy. A graffiti...

From Eyewitness News : Working in tandem with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office the Department of Investigation recently uncove...

From PIX11 : Illegal home conversions are a key issue in several city council races among the five boroughs. The New York City Departme...

From PIX11 : Half a dozen construction workers were within seconds of disaster when the sharp eyes of two building inspectors noticed the...

From the Daily News : A Queens construction worker stood precariously atop a dangling I-beam before the 3-ton steel piece dropped without...

From the Daily News : An FDNY inspector was busted Monday for trying to bribe a buildings inspector to look the other way about violations...

§ 649. Inspection. The commissioner, any deputy commissioner, borough superintendents, inspectors, or any officer of the department authoriz...

From DNA Info : The number of vacate orders issued to homes with often-dangerous illegal conversions has dropped by more than half in the ...

From the Daily News : A top agency official was caught on tape explaining how he regularly killed code violations as a favor to the guy wh...

Jefferson Seigel/Daily News From the Daily News : A crooked city housing inspector was sentenced to up to 7 1/2 years in prison Thursd...

From the Daily News : A worker who fell to his death at a Midtown construction site was riding an elevator powered by an “unsafe” jerry-ri...

From the Wall Street Journal : City inspections of more than 50 buildings in the East Village following the fatal March 26 explosion and f...

Original article is here . (Aren't you folks glad I read more than just the Queens weeklies?)

Letter to the Editor from the Times Ledger : Queens Borough President Katz, State Senator Avella, NYC Mayor DeBlasio, Assemblywoman Rozic,...

From Brooklyn Daily : The city is taking steps to put Brooklyn’s illegal home conversion problem on ice, but locals say the battle is just...

From the Daily News : Nearly 50 city building inspectors, construction contractors and two alleged mob associates surrendered to authorit...

From the Forum : It seems that Queens continues to keep the city Department of Buildings very busy. That was the story Tuesday night at ...

From the NY Times : A building inspector visited a scaffolding last summer on East 90th Street in Manhattan, where workers were restoring ...

From the Daily News : Years after the city promised to crack down on illegal firetraps, a new audit has found the problem has become much ...