PS 183. Image Credit: Google Maps.
Construction company and City disputed meaning of contract term in school construction contract. In July 2014, a New Jersey-based construction company Delric Construction contracted with the New York City School Construction Authority to provide labor and materials for an exterior masonry project for the fixed price of $8,481,000 at Public School 183, located at 76 Riverdale Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The project was for the removal and replacement of 40,000 square feet of the school’s exterior brick walls. Delric alleged that after it had started working on the project, the School Construction Authority requested $576,972 of additional work outside the scope of the contract. (read more…)
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Parents of deceased son win damages against the City. On July 13, 2011, Bohdan Vitenko drowned in Lyons Pool in the Tompkinsville section of Staten Island. Lyons pool is owned and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Vitenko, then 21-years old, was exercising in the pool with his friend Jonathan Proce for an extended period of time. The Olympic-sized pool measured 165 feet by 100 feet. It was 3.5 feet deep around its edges and 5 feet deep in the center. Both young men succumbed to shallow water blackout, a loss of consciousness followed by low oxygen to the brain. The phenomenon is typically caused by hyperventilating just before a long-breath dive. There were two lifeguards on duty, one of whom was 40 meters away at the time Vitenko drowned. (read more…)
East Drive in Central Park. Image Credit: Google Maps.
On June 2, 2016, Peter Deutch was riding his bicycle North-bound on East Drive in Central Park, Manhattan. East Drive is a three-lane roadway in Central Park with the left lane reserved for pedestrians, the middle lane designated for cyclists, and the right lane for motor traffic. Deutch collided with a flatbed truck owned by Hellman Electric Corporation that was driving directly to his right in the motor traffic lane. Deutch fell under the truck’s wheels and sustained multiple injuries to his legs and left hip. (read more…)
The court found the defendants were owners of a construction site where a fatal accident occurred, and could not use a provision of the workers compensation law to bar the decedent estates claims. Halmar International owned a construction site located in Maybrook, New York. The site was being used for the construction of a concrete mockup of an aqueduct in preparation for construction work on an aqueduct in Gardiner, New York. On December 2, 2013, Scott Winkler, a concrete pump operator was transferring concrete into the forms of a model aqueduct at the Maybrook site. The operator was standing atop a scaffold that was part of the form. Without warning the form and scaffold collapsed throwing the operator to the ground. The scaffolding, contents of the form, and wet cement fell on top of the operator resulting in his death. (read more…)
Ross Sandler, Director of the Center for New York City Law.
Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations for the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage. The movement to remove the monuments accelerated in the summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. (read more…)
