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Landfill and Sinking buildings

No, the buildings did not sink. They were built on pilings, and were stable, except for settling within the steel frame. However utilities were laid in trenches supported only by the landfill, and they did sink, causing shear fractures at the buildings.

It was obvious from looking at the plazas that they were lower, relative to the buildings, than first planned.

The Construction Defect Program

As part of one settlement with the state, the state, which had had ultimate oversight over construction, was to pay for defects which were declared construction defects, rather than ongoing maintenance issues. The temptations caused by this arrangement should be obvious.

Report of the Comptroller of the State of New York, August 1997

The New York State Mitchell-Lama program 

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