The Buildings Department may be in some trouble again, because their own report on the retaining wall collapse last summer at 808 Columbus/Columbus Village on the Upper West Side shows the incident could have been prevented if engineers noticed the rock was weathered, or if construction crews blasting the rock were using the seismic monitoring devices that are required by the FDNY. Neighbors had filed numerous complaints about the effects of the blasting, and the Buildings Department sent an inspector the day before the collapse, who "did not observe blasting" and apparently saw nothing wrong. [NYT; previously]
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