Subject: Andres Puerta

• TV Showdown for Deadbeat Luxury Builder

  There's a nice in-your-face piece of TV journalism about economic injustice that aired last night on MY9TV.com -- the handle for what we used to simply call Channel 9. The story, by dogged investigator Barbara Nevins Taylor, reports how a a successful nonunion subcontractor whose cranes and workers have helped erect some of the city's classiest new towers has been regularly stiffing his immigrant employees. Taylor tracked down builder Thomas Auringer (above, left) to his posh waterside home on

  June 2, 2009

• Low Wages in High Places

  September 18, 2007

• Labor War in Chelsea

  May 2, 2006