The October 2007 Queens newsletter of the NYC Department of Buildings:In Your Nabe Community News
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- "Landmarking lollapalooza"
- LIC art is for the birds
- Demolishing an architectural gem
- They deserve a break today
- Spooky Queens
- Here's to more treats than tricks
- Mixed use project for Downtown Jamaica
- Future crap prediction
- Charges against SJU gunman dropped
- A hole in Brooklyn & a scandal at City Hall
- The Sunnyside saga: It's finally over!
- Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery
- DOB progress report
- You're in God's hands with Allstate
- Asbestos mess at Bell Park Gardens?
- Bending the camera rules
- AM-NY: PlanYC is "almost messianic"
- Where’s John Liu?
- PlaNYC park plan decoded
- Requiem for a city
- Partial Building Collapse in Chelsea
- Stupid NYC
- Auburndale Rezoning
- Another view on overdevelopment
- A WTF? in QW
- Cavalcade of crap, part 4
- Bell Boulevard crane collapse
- Deer Killed On Parkway
- Bloomberg backing Vallone for BP
- Bye-bye to Bayside trees
- Cavalcade of crap, part 3
- BQE on stage
- JFK kitty roundup
- DOB getting tough?
- Fare reduction would raise more $$$
- Cavalcade of Crap, part 2
- Growing concern
- Reprieve for Astroland
- Turf moratorium
- Cavalcade of crap, part 1
- Happy homecoming!
- Flushing smuggling & sex ring busted
- Massacre mastermind gets life (not death)
- Some good news from Midville
- Fedderectomy may happen in Greenpoint
- Guesstimating budgets for transit plans
- Demanding library parity
- Housing agency sides with tenants
- Preserving Udall's Cove
- Tyvek special
- Queens mobilizes to save trees
- Rent-stabilized evicted to house homeless
- Exporing Queens jazz history
- Van Damned
- Adrian the environmentalist
- Daily News uncovers mortgage scam
- October Queens buildings newsletter
- 7 train extension problem
- Midsection murder in Middle Village
- Intensive work leads to intensive care
- DOB: "Whoops, we goofed."
- Pinky: DA was mean to me at Grand Jury
- First full of gas; next full of crap?
- How generous
- City clueless in Dutch Kills
- Hillside homes are history
- Temple tantrum
- Hundreds of hipsters tossed out on street
- Pinky's chief-of-staff quits
- Gym owner treated like punching bag
- Hole in the yard
- SJU dorm shut down
- Welcome to Flushing
- LPC loves Queens, the Bronx and S.I. too!
- Crap under the el
- 6th avenue heartache
- Starbucks coming to Metro
- AM-NY in Queens Village
- Scarano comes to Elmhurst
- OSHA fines contractor for trench collapse death
- More photos of Ridgewood Reservoir wildlife
- Lost? Sidewalk Compass Being Tested in NYC
- NYCLU serves humble pie to Nazli
- Jumpin' Juniper!
- Daily News: DEP meeting a big waste of time
- It's official: Parks to bulldoze Ridgewood forest
- 'GREEN CARD' RING BUSTED
- Ex-commish arrested in LI building scandal
- News from the Ledge
- Weeping for a Bay Ridge willow
- It's only a paper house...
- The half-demolition of Huang
- Our Nanny, Mike Bloomberg
- Alternative to the congestion pricing plan
- Advertising ban for council
- Guggenheim color choice: eggshell or urine yellow?
- Subprime mortgage map of the boroughs
- Queens schools bursting at the seams
- Johnny: Development projects in jeopardy
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Legislative Update: Excavation Law
Why was their no duty to safeguard neighboring properties? Why was there no insurance requirement in the building code? This is ludicrous. Even after Tommy Huang's many victims contacted the DOB about the extensive damage that he caused to their properties by his illegal practices and also apprised the DOB about his lack of liability insurance, they let him continue to build and do more damage.
It is mindboggling to think that these requirements were not in place a long time ago. The DOB should require Huang and other developers to make their victims whole before they are issued any more permits to build. If they cannot do that, the Mayor should make their victims whole. It seems to me that to expect the adjacent homeowners to engage in costly litigation with the likes of the Huangs and others, who have deep pockets is totally unfair. Many of the victims cannot afford to dish out ridiculous legal fees. The City of New York should set up a fund to bail out the victims.
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