From DNA Info : Politicians are renewing their call for stricter building and fire codes in the wake of the recent acquittals in the Deutsch...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A toxin-cleanup director and a company have been acquitted of manslaughter in a blaze that killed two firefighters at a con...

From the Daily News : A construction supervisor charged with the deaths of two firefighters in the Deutsche Bank building blaze was acquitte...

From the Daily News : Mayor Bloomberg loves to think big... All this attention to big projects comes at a price, though. Some of the price c...

Deutsche Bldg. faces new snags By TOM TOPOUSIS, NY Post The Deutsche Bank Building is finally coming down -- but at a snail's pace. More...

AP/ NY Post : The City Council has voted to bar building crews from performing demolitions at the same time as asbestos abatement. The bill ...

From the Neighborhood Retail Alliance : The mayor is touting the record level response times of the FDNY -but the quickest response came fr...

From the Daily News : Plenty of New Yorkers knew the Buildings Department was failing to protect them long before Bloomberg cracked down and...

From the Village Voice : Mike Bloomberg's worst scandal cost two firefighters their lives. If we lived in a media world in which facts a...

From the NY Times : Though an inspector warned in June 2007 that a breach in a standpipe at the former Deutsche Bank building had to be fixe...

From the Daily News : Early this month, mega-builder Bovis Lend Lease was on track to win a contract to build a new 1,200-student high schoo...

From the Daily News : Demolition work on the former Deutsche Bank building was halted Tuesday because of a broken safety switch discovered a...

From the Daily News : Prompted by the fatal Deutsche Bank building fire, the City Council passed a dozen bills Monday increasing oversight a...

From Crain's (AP) : The long-delayed project of dismantling a toxic tower across from ground zero has fallen behind schedule again becau...

From the Daily News : A severed standpipe that turned the Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan into a deathtrap for two firefighters in...

Three construction supervisors and a subcontractor have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2007 deaths of two firefighters at a Gr...

CIG-RULE VIOLATORS $LAMMED By DAVID SEIFMAN, NY Post Buildings Department inspectors blitzed construction firms with nearly 250 summonses in...

Manhattan prosecutors won't charge the city or state in the Deutsche Bank blaze that killed two firefighters - although several agencies...

In early 2006, New York State development officials approved the hiring of an unknown company, the John Galt Corporation, to help demolish t...

A year after the deadly Deutsche Bank inferno - sparked by a tossed cigarette - inspectors have found evidence that workers are smoking and ...