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Roadbuilding

NYC suburbs getting stoned again

It was Dickens, or maybe Arthur Conan Doyle or Stephen Crane that had me, as a boy, intrigued by cobblestones. I’d never seen them, my hometown wasn’t old enough, but they read well. I could hear them under the horses and carriages. You can see where this going. We are about to run head-on into […]

April 1, 2013

Roadbuilding

Traffic lights or stop signs?

Are traffic lights always preferable to stop signs? It’s not a new debate, and this time it’s a suburb in Brooklyn, New York, that is raising the issue. It seems cars speed through residential streets in Boerum Hill, and now some locals believe that traffic lights bear a major part of the blame as they encourage […]

March 26, 2013

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Buffalo researchers to test how NYC’s old brownstones would fair in an earthquake

For years, folks in New York City gave little thought to natural disasters. That sort of thing simply didn’t happen there. But these days, Mother Nature is anything but predictable and Superstorm Sandy showed a large-scale, deadly natural disaster can happen absolutely anywhere. With that and a 2011 earthquake in Virginia that shook the East […]

February 14, 2013

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Construction workers write patriotic messages of hope on beams of One World Trade Center

The Associated Press reported this morning on some of the very inspiring moments for the crews working on One World Trade Center. The crews have been invited to print messages and other graffiti on the skyscraper’s frame as it has gone up in memory of the 2,700 people killed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. […]

January 24, 2013

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Workers install base of spire at One World Trade Center

Workers at the the construction site of One World Trade Center installed the first piece of the building’s spire on January 15, the AP reported. Once the spire is complete, the 104-floor skyscraper will be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere. The nearly 70-ton piece arrived in Manhattan on December 12. It’s the heaviest of […]

January 16, 2013

Business

New York reviews methods to prepare, respond to future disasters

The NYS 2100 Commission, a panel put in place to issue recommendations for how New York should spend some of the $60 billion it received to recover from superstorm Sandy that hit October 29, released its preliminary report on ways to harden infrastructure in case of future emergencies, The Wall Street Journal reported. Rockefeller Foundation […]

January 8, 2013

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Escalator climbs its way into Four World Trade Center

This photo of a new escalator making its way to the top floors of a skyscraper at the World Trade Center construction site made its way to Reddit. If the perspective throws you off, that’s because the photo was reportedly taken from One World Trade Center, where a crane atop the building is hoisting the […]

December 19, 2012

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Spire of One World Trade Center arrives in NYC

Very cool moment for construction workers in New York City today as the crowning spire for One World Trade Center arrived by boat, the Associated Press reported. “It signifies that we’re back, we’re better than ever, and it shows the resilience of not just New York, but also people in general,” Steven Plate, the director […]

December 12, 2012

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New York needs $42 billion for Sandy cleanup

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday that his state needs $26 billion to clean up and restore after the damage Sandy caused and to prevent such destruction from taking place again, UPI reported. Cuomo, along with the state’s congressional delegation, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and county officials from Nassau, Suffolk and […]

November 28, 2012

Construction Equipment

Morbark names New Jersey, Staten Island dealer

Morbark has signed a contract to make Garden State Bobcat Group its dealer for New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. The Garden State Bobcat Group consists of Bobcat of Central Jersey located in Green Brook, New Jersey, and Garden State Bobcat located in Freehold, New Jersey. Bobcat of Central Jersey will handle Morbark equipment […]

August 23, 2012

Maintenance

JCB expands in New York and Florida

JCB of North America has expanded its network with the addition of two dealerships, JCB of NYC and JCB of South Florida. JCB of NYC, formerly known as Lapietra Machinery, is the newest dealership in New York. This dealer is located at 5320 3rd Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. JCB of South Florida, located in Boynton […]

May 16, 2012

Technology

Liftech expands dealer territory of Doosan

Liftech Equipment, which has represented Doosan Portable Power in Western New York through its Lancaster and Rochester branches since 2010, will expand its dealer territory into 10 counties in Central New York. The counties are Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins. “The expansion allows us to better serve these 10 […]

March 26, 2012