How Bloomberg Made Patricia Lancaster the Fall Gal

...A self-evident failing and free-falling system has not been enough to convince D.O.B. to slow down and change policy. Sadly, it appears that the city only notices problems when someone dies. Recently, after yet another self-certification disaster in the Bronx in which two firefighters died, Buildings announced that it would be more punitive with its system of self-certification. Now if an architect is found to have committed violations three times over the course of a year, he or she can have privileges suspended. The fact that it took 12 years for such an oversight measure to occur is just another example of a car careening out of control...more>