Two New Deaths, Same Old Questions |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 11:43 am |
| Tags: source ny times, dwyer jim, times select |
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By JIM DWYER Published: August 25, 2007 In a partnership with the State of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's government owns a ruined, contaminated skyscraper at 130 Liberty Street, across from the World Trade Center site. The building appears to have been a howling firetrap, the kind for which private owners would be indicted in days. Last week it killed two men, Firefighters Robert Beddia, 53, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33. Mr. Bloomberg and his partner, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, preached at the funerals that they would find out what their own governments had done.Here is a short list: They hired what appeared to be a shell corporation to demolish the building. This company plugged stairwells with plywood to keep asbestos from flying around. Workers clipped sprinkler lines. Someone cut a standpipe, a dry water main that is reserved for delivering water during fires. On many floors, the workers left a carpet knife and a flashlight by plywood doors that led to the [ Full article ] |
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