The tunnel is approximately 60 feet long, 8 feet wide, and with a ceiling height of 5 feet and connects four neighboring buildings -- including those at 784 and 786 Eastern Parkway, the DOB said.

DOB Commissioner Eric Ulrich submitted his resignation Thursday morning, Mayor Eric Adams’ press secretary, Fabien Levy, said in a statement. Ulrich resigned, “in his words, to avoid ...

Ulrich “monetized each and every elected role that he held in government,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a press conference hours after the disgraced DOB head surrendered at ...

The former DOB commissioner learned from the mayor he was under investigation in May 2022, around when he started his stint in the administration, the Daily News previously reported. The probe ...

Nydia Velázquez. Reps with the city’s Department of Investigation confirmed on July 30 that they had opened up their inquiry into the building owner as well as the DOB in following the collapse, but a ...

The Department of Buildings has issued a vacate order to tenants living in 15 apartments inside a Norwood building that recently erupted in flames. The blaze Friday on Rochambeau Avenue left 10 ...

Officials say there were no injuries. DOB inspectors and structural engineers determined that other sections of the wall around the water tank were also in disrepair, and in danger of possible ...

The inquiry into Epstein’s bribery of a DOB inspector in 2013 uncovered extensive corruption, according to Vance. To date, 12 DOB employees, five Housing Preservation Department employees and 34 ...