We’re Gonna Drywall Like It’s 1997
The city's construction workforce soon down to pre-Lewinsky levels!
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The city's construction workforce soon down to pre-Lewinsky levels!
This time it was a worker at a tower on 41st Street and Eleventh Avenue. It’s unclear why the scaffolding gave way, but the result was a deadly plunge of 40 stories.
A report is due out today citing seventeen to twenty causes for construction and planning setbacks.
Two are confirmed dead, and the Fire Department is pulling people from the wreckage now.
Behold a timeline of high-rise accidents over the past few years in New York and what the Department of Buildings has done each time in response to make us all (slightly) safer.
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