New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Improve Standards and Enforcement in the DOB

New York, NY – The Bloomberg administration said that they are running to catch up in its oversight of building enforcement lapses and vowed to look into all the different elements of the Building Department.

Mayor Bloomberg met with Building Commissioner Patricia Lancaster to discuss improving standards and enforcement in the agency, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff said. “There is no intent to allow anyone to violate the law,” Doctoroff said, and that the city is adding more building inspectors.

Doctoroff also said that Bloomberg inherited an understaffed and inefficient Building Department rife with corruption. “We have made substantial progress,” he insisted. [NY Daily News]