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The Department of Buildings has a new boss. Melanie La Rocca, a vice president at the School Construction Authority, is heading over to the...

The Department of Buildings now has an interactive map that offers a quick glimpse at construction activity, accidents and violations in the city over...

One month after a woman was trapped in an elevator on the Upper East Side for three days, the city is giving owners of...

For our latest subscriber conference call, The Real Deal’s James Kleimann, Kathryn Brenzel and David Jeans discussed our ‘Elevated risk’ cover story, which found...

Today at 2:30 p.m. (EST), subscribers will get an inside look at our January cover story–a seven-month investigation on elevator accidents in New York....

Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. (EST), subscribers will get an inside look at our January cover story–a seven-month investigation on elevator accidents in New York....

Join The Real Deal’s editorial staff on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 2:30 p.m. for our next subscribers-only conference call. TRD’s managing web editor James...

Join The Real Deal’s editorial staff on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 2:30 p.m. for our next subscribers-only conference call. TRD’s managing web editor James...

The city’s Department of Buildings plans to strip Extell Development of permits to build a 775-foot skyscraper at 50 West 66th Street, Manhattan Borough...

Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler is stepping down at the end of this month. Chandler, 58, will retire February 1, he confirmed to...

City officials are giving construction workers another six months to complete at least 30 hours of safety training after contractors voiced concerns about meeting...

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez indicted five New Yorkers on Wednesday in an alleged asbestos removal scheme at a luxury duplex renovation in the...

It wasn’t until Jared Kushner’s family firm was exposed for falsifying construction paperwork that a story about New York building permits made national headlines....

New York landlords accused of illegally leasing short-term rentals were hit with almost $300,000 in fines in July. As part of the city’s crackdown...

Tenants at 85 Bowery should be able to move back into their building within the next few days. The Department of Buildings rescinded the...

Among the many skyscrapers sprouting up along “Billionaires’ Row,” there is one that’s technically not a new building at all. JDS Development Group and...

Keeping track of new development real estate projects in New York City is often as time consuming as it is complicated. Any construction work...

A pair of developers in the Upper East Side have reached new heights of interpreting New York’s zoning code. Despite neighborhood controversy, Third Palm...

After a Housing Rights Initiative investigation found that Kushner Companies severely misrepresented the number of rent stabilized apartments on at least 80 construction permit...

Elon Musk’s fabled Hyperloop got some good news recently when, rather than a vague tweet from Musk saying he had “verbal govt approval” for...