Reply With QuoteI have a feeling that demolition of the 130 Liberty Street building is never gonna continue.
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Worker Claims He Warned About Conditions At Deutsche Bank Building
A former construction worker at the Deutsche Bank building has reportedly filed a lawsuit after getting fired.
The move comes a little over a year after fire ripped through the damaged building, killing two firefighters.
According to a story in The New York Post Sunday, Marshall Greenberg, 38, told his bosses that co-workers were smoking and drinking on the job months before the fire.
Investigators later determined a lit cigarette sparked the deadly blaze.
Greenberg reportedly alleges that managers at John Galt Corporation told him to keep quiet before they eventually fired him.
A Manhattan grand jury is investigating whether anyone should face criminal charges in the case.
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I have a feeling that demolition of the 130 Liberty Street building is never gonna continue.
It is continuing.
It has to sooner or later.
They just can't leave that disgusting pile of junk there forever!
Deutsche dog sniffing for smokes
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is using a tobacco-sniffing dog to screen workers at 130 Liberty St. to make sure they’re not bringing any cigarettes onto the site.
That is just one of several measures the L.M.D.C. took after finding cigarette packs and beer cans on the site in August. The presence of cigarettes was particularly galling to the community since a worker’s cigarette started the 2007 fire in the contaminated building that killed two firefighters.
Other measures the L.M.D.C. has implemented include adding security cameras and human guards, spokesperson Mike Murphy said. The dog has not found any workers smuggling in cigarettes.
Work to decontaminate the former Deutsche Bank building continues, with floors 12 and above of the 26-story building cleaned and approved. Workers are now cleaning floors six through 11, and the L.M.D.C. hopes to have all but the bottom three floors cleaned by the end of the year, and then finish the last three floors before the end of January.
The L.M.D.C. will soon start removing the facade from the floors of the building that were recently cleaned. That work will happen from the inside of the building and will leave it looking bare, as the very top floors are.
“It looks like a building that’s being built,” Murphy said of the stripped-away interior. “It’s clean steel and that’s it.”
The crane that towers over the building is done removing materials from the roof and will now stand still until workers use it during demolition next year.
The L.M.D.C. is currently writing a plan to demolish the building and hopes to submit it to government regulators by the middle of November, Murphy said. The public will not see the plan until December or January, when the L.M.D.C. will hold a meeting to present it and answer questions. Murphy said the corporation would present the plan in January even if it is not yet approved — a development that would please community leaders who would prefer to review the plan before approval. He said there would be no delay between decontamination and demolition.
The L.M.D.C. is still hoping to have the building down by August 2009.
—Julie Shapiro
Downtown Express
Hallelujah!
Never thought work would ever continue on this site.
I've never seem so much blasted leniency and controversy in all my life!!
Smoking and drinking beer on the job?!!! Why in the hell isn't OSHA getting involved in this? Seems as though they just don't care.
Why is this train wreck with these bozos allowed to continue?!!
Removing the trailers from the bridge, the crane on the right working at 130 Cedar.
Sorry to change the subject, but will there be undreground access to WTC 5, or will it be more seperate then the others?
No one knows what will go up on the WTC 5 site.
But seeing as how what goes up there will rise directly above the entry to underground parking it would seem that there will be some sort of below-grade connector.
There is going to be a southern bathtub extension that will be, if memory serves, not as deep as the current one and will provide subterranean access to WTC5 at least at a level of maintenance but I'm not sure if there is any provisions for below ground general pedestrian access from it to the other WTC towers.
November 12, 2008 LMDC Shares 130 Liberty Decontamination Update
The building is scheduled to be fully cleaned in January 2009 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) officials shared a brief update about the 130 Liberty Street deconstruction project at the November 10th Community Board 1’s World Trade Center (WTC) Redevelopment Committee meeting.
Spokesman Michael Murphy explained to the board that floors 13, 14, 15, and 16 have been cleaned and cleared by environmental regulators, who are expected to inspect floors 11 and 12 later this week. Workers are now in the process of cleaning floors 6 through 10, and if the abatement remains on schedule the building should be fully cleaned and regulator-cleared in January 2009.
The LMDC is collaborating with regulators on a revised building-deconstruction plan. Murphy said that the plan could be finalized as soon as early December 2008, and barring any delays, deconstruction should be complete by August 2009. Meanwhile, workers will likely begin removing façade windows from inside the tower, which is fully sealed with negative air pressure to prevent any dust from escaping.
The former 40-story building was deconstructed to the 26th floor when a fire halted abatement and deconstruction work last summer.
From:LowerManhattan.info
That STILL seems too far away, which means that this uglybug eyesore / monstrocity, or what's left of it, gets to hang around for another winter, spring and summer!!
Last edited by Daquan13; November 17th, 2008 at 03:19 PM.
Originally Posted by GreenwichBoy
November 12, 2008 LMDC Shares 130 Liberty Decontamination Update
The building is scheduled to be fully cleaned in January 2009 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) officials shared a brief update about the 130 Liberty Street deconstruction project at the November 10th Community Board 1’s World Trade Center (WTC) Redevelopment Committee meeting.
Spokesman Michael Murphy explained to the board that floors 13, 14, 15, and 16 have been cleaned and cleared by environmental regulators, who are expected to inspect floors 11 and 12 later this week. Workers are now in the process of cleaning floors 6 through 10, and if the abatement remains on schedule the building should be fully cleaned and regulator-cleared in January 2009.
The LMDC is collaborating with regulators on a revised building-deconstruction plan. Murphy said that the plan could be finalized as soon as early December 2008, and barring any delays, deconstruction should be complete by August 2009. Meanwhile, workers will likely begin removing façade windows from inside the tower, which is fully sealed with negative air pressure to prevent any dust from escaping.
The former 40-story building was deconstructed to the 26th floor when a fire halted abatement and deconstruction work last summer.
From:LowerManhattan.info
That explains everything! There's collaboration with the Regulators!!
This means the 130 Liberty Street building won't officially be dead until July of 2009.
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