City Puts Cranes on Notice

The embattled Department of Buildings makes moves to rein in the cranes.

Old Lady Nearly Killed by Hotel Shower Is Angry in $100 Million Kinds of Ways

First 79-year-old Ethel Tropez endured the floods of Hurricane Katrina in her hometown of Live Oak, Texas (no, we are not making these names up), and then she comes to New York City, all refugee style, and is promptly scalded to within an inch of her life by her shower at the swanky Chandler Hotel in midtown.

A Look at High-rise Disasters, and the City's Baby Steps to Safety (Updated!)

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.

Injured Polar Bear Swimmer Dies