I am so shocked, man. My elementary school (yes, the one I went to for pre-k to 6th grade) showed up on the list. I didn't know it's gotten that bad over the last decade or so.
my g_d ...
Speaking of public safety, maybe the mayor can hire the John Galt Corporation to do asbestos abatement and other reconstruction work for NYC public schools. Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff helped hire the Galt Corporation for the Deutsche Bank Building dismantling and Mayor Moneybags said that "the city was lucky" to get the Galt Corporation to take the job at the building where two firemen were killed battling a toxic blaze and another 29 firemen made mayday calls.
BTW, here is a description of the job that "company" did, via the NY Daily News:
Workers at the toxic former Deutsche Bank tower drank, smoked and ignored basic safety rules on the job - and the company doing the $177 million demolition project never reined them in, a whistleblower told the Daily News.
"The firefighters - they didn't stand a chance. They walked into a deathtrap, a booby trap a year or more in the making," said the 52-year-old asbestos-removal supervisor, who worked at the Ground Zero job site for a year.
The supervisor met with FDNY marshals Tuesday, telling them he saw a slew of safety violations in the toxic tower.
He said the 29th floor was casually known as "Teddy's Tavern" because of the vodka and other booze regularly consumed in that floor's decontamination unit, where men cleaned up and ate meals. The 29th floor has since been demolished.
The whistleblower also said work crews smoked heavily and ran live power lines along floors where asbestos removal was being done - a dangerous lapse.
He said the demolition subcontractor, John Galt Corp., hired one electrician to monitor 10 floors, instead of the required two per floor. He charged that some workers set up transformers on work floors and failed to safeguard the red-hot electrical generators.
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FDNY marshals interviewed the whistleblower as part of their ongoing probe into the cause of Saturday's deadly blaze. The whistleblower said the violations he saw turned his stomach.
"Mayor Bloomberg said that the city was lucky that these guys [Galt] took the job? Not so lucky," he said.
The Ground Zero project was Galt's first demolition of a tower and its first major asbestos job - and it showed, he said.
He said the company fired an asbestos supervisor around last Christmas because he was routinely drunk, but then rehired him in the spring to run the 17th floor, which is where the FDNY believes the fire ignited.
"He was a drunk. Everyone knew it. For whatever reason they let him back on thejob this spring, and now everyone's looking at the 17th floor," the whistleblower said.
Today's Post calls for the firing of Fire Commish Scopetta. Well deserved though I doubt it will happen. To Bloomie accountability is something for the grunts, the cops, fdnys, teachers, transit workers. When it involves someone he lunches with like the CEO of ConEd or his commissioners like Scopetta and the guy incharge of ACS, accountability become "He's doing the best he can and we should be grateful."
I think even his house organs like Zuckerman's News are starting to get the picture of a billionaire mayor who's bored with having to answer to the little people, especially at the expense of his pals.(Not to say Zuckerman feels this, but he's not censoring Mike Daly and other columnists.)
My school is not on the list even though people on the streets are able to walk into the rooms during the day to use the bathroom. There is no security around the building stopping this. But, since the admin of my school probably does not fill out police reports, we are considered safe.
The administration of my school, Packeminandscrewem High School, winks, nods, and looks the other way at intruders. How about the "guy from Dell" who suddenly showed up in my small special ed classroom looking for our "computers". When I asked him for ID, which apparently our crack (??!!) NYPD trained professional security agents didn't, he assumed an air of being offended. I wouldn't let him in the classroom, and kids were standing behind me witnessing this. I pressed him for ID, and he threw a blank visitors' pass at me. I said forget it and he called me a bitch. I told him that's me, bring proof you're supposed to be here. I reported the incident to the tech person asking if he was expecting anyone from Dell and he just shrugged his shoulders. That's the same response I would have gotten from admin, plus the wink and the nod. It was June, so I let it go. Our school will never make the list, the truth is never told. Our admin is just interested in this corrupt self serving policy of bonuses on the teachers' backs.
What a lovely statistic for NYC to possess! (Previous comment should be read with sarcasm.)
So sad. As a teacher who recently relocated out of NYC, I find this statistic to be so sad. There are so many teachers who are doing so much amazing work. Why doesn't that get noticed?!??!
I'm in favor of the hari kari Japanese/Chinese solution for corrupt public officials. Whatever you thought of him, Donald Manes at least saved the cost of a public trial.
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