Years before the accident at the upper west side’s Esplanade Luxury Senior Residences took place, a Dept of Buildings (DOB) engineer had told the building’s owners, that terracotta on the facade needed to be repaired, The DOB, in turn, ignored an email from a private contractor expressing concern about the facade seven months prior to the accident.
This tragic story, which is still making headlines, is revisited by HABITAT Magazine.
