Construction Boom In NYC - Scaffolding and Construction Accidents on The Rise?

The New York City Department of Buildings has launched an initiative to inspect all construction/scaffolding sites in the wake of 2 firefighters losing their lives at the Deutsche Bank building and a other fatal scaffold collapses in and around New York City. I took a few photos of this construction scaffolding at PS 147 in Brooklyn, which is an accident waiting to happen. Also, I wonder how many documented workers there are working on this and other construction sites in and around the city?

See the story in Crains Business:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/FREE/783550041/1058/SUB





Brooklyn School Scaffold

The Changing Landscape of South Carolina and Their Police Vehicles

Well, I don't know what got me to posting about South Carolina (maybe it was because my mother was born and raised there) and my grandmother was one of the few female African American business landowners there. (Hmmmm. I can see another blog topic in the making) I couldn't travel down there anytime soon and I didn't want to write about how the sorry Knicks used the University of Charleston as their practice facility, so I figured since I'm on the vein of vintage police cars, I might as well post some from the State of South Carolina. The oldest is from 1975 (yes, they did have police cars before then) and I couldn't find any older than this one online. So here goes the pictures of South Caroline vintage police cars, showing how these guys chased down, captured or arrested their criminals in years past; hopefully...legally.



1975 Ford LTD




State Police



Charleston Tahoe




Beaufort Police Vehicle




Greenville Police Car

More to come. Anyone wanting to comment on these police vehicles, stories about police, their good or bad experiences with police in South Carolina, feel free to post up to and including, false arrests, emergency rescues, apprehension of criminals, South Carolina police brutality & misconduct or anything else.

On Another Vein - Diseases and Conditions Affecting Children

Whenever I come across a disease, condition or affliction, where the target is children, I can't help but to speak up as these types of conditions always are tearjerker material. I knew from prior readings that some newborns/toddlers faced such major operations as kidney, liver and heart transplants but I never knew to the extent that the medical conditions that warranted these transplants existed. So I shall start a thread or discussion about (in laymans terms -I'm no expert) on pediatric conditions which occur abnormally but have a man-made cause, which in my opinion is the worse. If you can pre-emptively repair or fix a known problem which might adversely affect the life or lives of newborns or pre-age children, I say, spare no expense. If that condition is allowed to exist and fester and a child is affected to the point of serious injury or death, I say, go after the culprit(s) with both hands and both feet. Let us discuss pediatric medicine and specifically renal diseases and pediatric nephrology.


What is Pediatric Nephrology?

Nephrology is the scientific study of the kidneys, particularly their functions and diseases and a nephrologist is a physician who specializes in the kidneys. The kidneys remove waste from the body (urine), filter toxins from the blood and help regulate the concentration of certain elements in the blood. Children whose kidneys have become seriously impaired require immediate and specialized medical care. (From
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)

The various diseases of the kidneys that pediatric nephrologists treat are:

Chronic kidney failure, Congenital urologic/nephrologic disorders, hematuria, hypertension (ACE Inhibitors), in utero kidney anomalies, kidney stones, renal stone disorders, renal transplants, urinary tract infection, nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, neutropenia. This information was referenced by the Mayo Clinic

It is not the suggestion that pediatric nephrologists are the causes of unnatural nephrology events or causes. They are very specialized and well trained and their area of medicinal practice usually is achieved by spending 11 years of training prior to achieving residency in this field. The causes that I refer to are injuries to the fetus during slips and falls, accidents such as auto or vehicular crashes, environmental conditions such as exposure to toxic and chemical environments during pre and post natal care and incorrect prescription of drugs with known side effects.

These are instances where the most thorough or successful personal injury attorney, medical malpractice or even product liability lawyers' services need to be utilized. To see a pregnant woman slip and fall and the fetus become injured because a pavement was not shoveled, a mopped floor was not flagged as having a slippery surface when wet or a cracked sidewalk not repaired is inexcusable. To have to relegate a newborn to a life of kidney dialysis, stones, diabetes and total or chronic kidney failure because of a preventable injury, should be prosecuted in court against the offender, so that the parents of the child can be sure that the child receives the necessary medical care, which is not inexpensive and can have a respectable quality of life.

Next Up: Ace Inhibitors - Their Use and side effects


Guide to Renal Conditions and Diseases Affecting Children

Changing Landscape of Brooklyn Part 2 (Hospitals)

During my last walking tour of downtown Brooklyn, I passed by this building, which is a condo development on the corner of Carlton Avenues and Greene Avenues:






It is an obscenity what they are asking for this building, which I suspect is a pre-capitalization on the Atlantic Yards/Nets Stadium project, which is only a few blocks away

Considering that the neighborhood is rich with history such as the old Brooklyn Eye & Ear Hospital, (see the old ad in a medical journal):



[Graduate Course in Ophthalmic
Plastic Surgery
The Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital will present
an intensive course in Ophthalmic Plastic
Surgery, April 24 through 26, 1974. For registration
and further information please contact
Dr. Vernon Dressier, Administrator, Brooklyn Eye
and Ear Hospital, 29 Greene Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y. 11238.

or the old Adelphi Hospital at 50 Greene Ave (where this writer was born). Both are now high-end rentals/coops/condos. See the photo: and this headline in the New York Times of 1942:

"To stimulate interest among parents to purchase war stamps and bonds for their babies, the Adelphi Hospital, Greene Avenue and Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, held a baby health and beauty contest yesterday. Four "victory babies," winners in the competition, received paid-up war stamp books, which may be exchanged for bonds".



Now, both of these hospitals were in a simpler time: no stray bullets hitting innocent men, women or children, no medical malpractice claims or personal injury attorneys laying in wait at the entrance of the hospital. In fact, on Greene Avenue, one could leave ones door open in the early evening and nite in the summer to catch the breeze coming off of Fulton Street. Now, we have such behemoth-type hospitals such as Woodhull, which exist to only justify themselves. New York City government has taken going to the hospital for emergency care an adventure and it is no wonder that overbilling to medicare, New York personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice claims are through the roof in Brooklyn and the rest of New York.




A Photo of Woodhull Hospital

Up Next: Kings County Hospital

The Changing Landscape of New York - Brooklyn

So I went around downtown Brooklyn last weekend to see how much it has changed and I noticed this huge real estate boom. Forest City Ratner, the owners of the New Jersey Nets, are building at least 12 office towers, with some housing private businesses and others housing city, state and federal government offices. For instance, the Klitgord Auditorium on the corner of Jay and Tillary Streets and part of New York City Technical College is being torn down and an office tower is being built there. In exchange for the air rights, Forest City Ratner will be building a state of art gymnasium for the college and they have air rights above the 2nd or 3rd floor of this struction, which, I am told, will be 30 - 40 stories high.

Similarly, the family court building (for those not up on this: this is where New York divorce, child custody, family law, child support and matrimonial law issues are decided) on Jay Street (next to the Brookly Marriott) owns the first 10 floors but Forest City Ratner has air rights for this structure as well. The Brooklyn real estate market is truly booming as you will see from the following pictorial:



This condo development was built directly across from the New York City Brooklyn House of Dentention, a local jail holding facility, connected to the Brooklyn New York Criminal Court building. This was a satellite holding facility for Brooklyn but which has been closed because of budget cuts, overcrowding, police brutality and misconduct complaints. (Boro Pres Demands House of Dentention Closure)

And of course, here is a picture of the Brooklyn New York House of Detention located on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn for those arrested for criminal and civil contempt proceedings. Joined at the hip with the Brooklyn Criminal Court building. The New York City Police Departments Central Booking has be relocated here for arrest processing and holding for arraignments and pre-arraignments (whatever that is, they hold you while they figure out what crime to charge you with?):



As I mentioned before the Brooklyn New York House of Detention is connected via tunnel to the Brooklyn Criminal Court building (See photo)


This is where all criminal arrests are arraigned and processed. This is a Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Bronx and NY New York criminal defense lawyer and NYC police misconduct attorneys playground and it is where most of the police overtime in New York City is spent -- waiting for the district attorney or prosecutor to release the arresting police officer back to regular duty after an arrest.

Right down the street was this new development. Don't know who its by or what its for but it is brand new real estate under construction in Brooklyn. So here it is:



To show the proximity to these projects, I have used existing landmarks in Brooklyn, such as the Brooklyn House of Detention and Brooklyn Criminal Court House. This little beauty is next to Brooklyn NY Landlord/Tenant Court on Livingston Street (See photo)



This is where New York real estate lawyers & Brooklyn NY civil litigation attorneys dwell. They plead cases involving eviction and dispossess in New York. FYI: In New York City, if a landlord illegally evicts you, after you have legally resided on his or her property for 30 or more days, you may call the New York Police Department, where the matter becomes criminal and the landlord may be subject to arrest.

The Changing Landscape of Florida

This is not necessarily New York but the vintage police car photo post was very interesting so I figured why just stop at New York City? Since it's very cold today here in NY today (13 degrees), I figured let me look for a warm climate and feature their police cars. Will it warm people up by seeing Florida state and local police vehicles and cars? Probably not but here goes anyway. It goes back to what the previous post said: Seeing how other states control their criminal activity or how it was controlled and how they transported their criminals after arrest. One of the photos though looks like something that Gillespie would have driven in the movie "Heat of the Night":


Florida State Police Car


Kissemmee Florida Police Patrol Vehicle 1971


Naples Florida Police Car

The Changing Landscape of New York City

I didn't notice how much New York City has changed and I set out to capture a little bit of this history but not all of it (just too much) but I figured I would start with a pretty interesting piece of history and that is with law enforcement in New
York City.

I was looking at New York City Police Department patrol cars or as they call them, RMP's for radio motor patrol and I set about to find photos of previous RMP's for the NYPD and the style of vehicle, color, make and model are very interesting over the years. From the curent white and blue to the blue and white to the old green and black RMPs of the 60's and 70's. It's also amazing in our day and age what equipment the NYPD used to thwart criminals and criminal activity in New York. Here goes:


1968 RMP (Green, Black & White)


1966 RMP (Green, Black & White)


1980's NY Housing Police Dept RMP (Red, Orange, White)


1970's Port Authority PD RMP


1990's NYPD Blue and White RMP


1990's NYPD Blue and White RMP


1990's NY Transit Police RMP


Its worth noting that the NY transit police and housing police were folded into the NYPD. Up Next: The changing skyline of New York City including Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx and Queens.

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