There building of The City University of New York’s Fitterman Hall, is hung up on money — specifically, how much financing is or is not due from New York City.
The vast Chinese-American community has contributed millions of dollars to relief efforts, dwarfing past fund-raising campaigns.
Those with Downs syndrome have been living much longer due to medical advances, but shown a higher incidence of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The investigation is focused on whether a part of the crane had been seriously damaged last year and then inappropriately put back into service, an official said.
Two deadly crane crashes threaten to tarnish the New York construction boom that Michael R. Bloomberg has presided over as mayor.
Officials are focusing on a bad weld as the possible cause of a Manhattan crane collapse — a very different problem than what caused another accident in March.
Two months after Fox News said it had wiped out a bedbug infestation in its Midtown Manhattan newsroom, a network employee who says she was bitten on three occasions has filed a negligence suit against the building’s owners and managing agent and two cleaning companies. In a suit filed Thursday, the employee, Jane Clark, a coordinator in the department that transmits the channel’s satellite feeds around the world, seeks unspecified damages for “pain, shock, mental anguish,” which she says resulted from bites on her arms, leg and neck. Ms. Clark is on medical leave. Fox News is not named in the suit. A statement by one of the building owners and Cushman & Wakefield, its managing agent, said tenants were responsible for providing extermination services. Still, the statement added, “As a prudent step, we are bringing in outside, independent experts to review the situation.” On March 17 a Fox executive said that the infestation appeared to have originated in the home of another employee.
Mr. Shattuck was the last president of the company that owned Schrafft’s restaurants, a New York City-based chain that offered home-style food in genteel surroundings.