The Yankees have hired an engineering company to determine the cause of the problems as the team prepares for what could be its first World Series there.

Long Island was once known for being the birthplace of aviation and a home to NASA. The death of Walter Cronkite stirred up some of the old lunar fever.

Feniosky Peña-Mora, who will become dean of Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in July, spoke no English when he arrived from the Dominican Republic as a young man.

A report confirmed an earlier finding that led to criminal charges against the rigging company involved in an accident that killed seven people last March.

For the past six years, engineering students at the university have been required to participate in community service projects, and other departments may adopt the practice.

Robert D. LiMandri, the mayor’s choice, is technically not eligible for the job until new legislation is signed downgrading the qualification requirements for the job.

The commissioner of New York’s Buildings Department will no longer need certification as an architect or engineer.

To the builders of the 21st-century World Trade Center, the river wall under West Street it is both an obstacle and an engineering marvel of 19th-century New York.

There are nearly one million buildings in New York City, and more than 4,200 currently under construction, and it falls on one department to monitor them all.