Doctoroff: DOB will change

In response to a series of Daily News articles about how the city’s building boom has led to insufficient oversight from the Department of Buildings when it comes to both code violations and legitimate citizen complaints about builders, deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff said the Bloomberg administration is looking into making improvements at the DOB. “We are running to catch up in the face of a spectacular building boom,” said Doctoroff, who noted that more inspectors would be added to the DOB and reforms to the department are imminent. more [NYDN]