Deutsche Bank AG

Unanswered Questions about the Deutsche Bank Fire

Two Firefighters Injured at Deutsche Bank site

Smoking Caused the Deutsche Bank fire: Mayor

Daily Flog: Campaign's rich laughs; Bolt beats Phelps; fatal wounds to Musharraf, John Galt, Georgia, and a boxer

Post Says DA Looking to Charge Deutsche Bank Inspectors, Contractors

Steamroller Cuomo Squeezes Int'l Banks for Big Bucks

Fighting Foreclosure: Subprime Borrowers Battle (and Beat) Lenders in Court

Daily Flog: McCain's speech; bikes and bloomers; three jeers for Giuliani

Midday Mashup: Shooting, Stabbing, Suing, Etc.

John Galt, 3 Men Charged in Deutsche Bank Fire; City Gets Off

We're saved! Yankees bail out New York City!

Hair Traffic

Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

Gangsta Rule

Keeping a Piece of the Action

Dealing With the Devil

Keeping a Piece of the Action

Citizen CEO

The WEF's Corporate Moguls Debate Their Role as Unelected World Leaders

Gift of Gab

German producer drops echoes, crazy voices, bowling balls

Quick Hits

Calvary Cemetery, Queens. At Concierge, for tourists: "Ten Things Not to Do in New York." We concur except for the street dogs: if you get them grilled, not boiled, you're fine. "Deutsche Bank Predicts 40% Drop in New York Home Prices." Keep it up, folks, and maybe someday we can afford to live ... More >>

Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal—The Deutsche Bank Fire—Should Be His Downfall. Why Isn't It?

Calvary Cemetery, Queens. At Concierge, for tourists: "Ten Things Not to Do in New York." We concur except for the street dogs: if you get them grilled, not boiled, you're fine. "Deutsche Bank Predicts 40% Drop in New York Home Prices." Keep it up, folks, and maybe someday we can afford to live ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

The Deutsche Bank fire is Mayor Bloomberg's "defining debacle," says Wayne Barrett, "a failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency, revealed in one law enforcement report or news story after another." But with the help of a complaisant press, the Mayor's getting off the hook. Asked why ... More >>

Barrett: Bloomberg All Fired Up for Builder Bovis

 By Wayne Barrett and Lucy JordanThe Voice's cover story this week, "Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal--the Deutsche Bank Fire--Should Be His Downfall" -- examined the determination of top city officials, including Bloomberg's longtime top deputy Dan Doctoroff, to ignore the risk of installing Bovis ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control ... More >>

Voice Deutsche Bank Fire Story Draws Reactions from Firefighters' Kin, Colleagues, Others

​by Johanna Barr and Tom Feeney Jr. In this week's Voice cover story, Wayne Barrett reports on the Bloomberg administration's "failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency" in its handling of the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007. Those involved reached out to the Voice in reaction to th ... More >>

Letters: July 28, 2009

​by Johanna Barr and Tom Feeney Jr. In this week's Voice cover story, Wayne Barrett reports on the Bloomberg administration's "failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency" in its handling of the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007. Those involved reached out to the Voice in reaction to th ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>

City Has Fined Workers, Sites $1.8 Million for Smoking on the Job

​We knew the city didn't like construction workers drinking on the job. They apparently don't like the workers smoking, either. In less than a year the Department of Buildings has doled out 932 violations and $1.8 million in fines, says the New York Post, some for smoking, some for failure to ... More >>

Fannie Mae Auction of Screwed S. Bronxites' Apartments Cancelled

Foreclosed apartments in 19 South Bronx buildings that were going to be sold off in an online auction next week were saved today. The city announced that Fannie Mae canceled the auction. Financed by Deutshe Bank, the Ocelot Capital Group -- a real estate firm that was started by wealthy Wall Stree ... More >>

Bloomberg and Schumer Happy About Ferry Cash, Reminding Us of a Certain Fatal Crash

By Tom Feeney Jr. ​When Mike Bloomberg announced the injection of nearly $50 million of federal stimulus funds into the maintenance of the Staten Island Ferry recently, he issued a press release also crediting US senator Charles Schumer and other members of the New York's congressional delegation. ... More >>

Sparking Resentment: Bloomberg, FDNY Top Brass -- and Media -- Skip Deutsche Bank Fire Memorial Service for Firefighters (Updated)

Mike Bloomberg boycotted the second memorial service yesterday for the two firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, who died at the Deutsche Bank site, so the media boycotted it with him. Not a line about it appeared in any newspaper, and only Grace Rauh of NY1 bothered to report about it ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

John Galt Agent Gets Prison for Deutsche Bank Fraud

When the city allowed Bloomberg pals Bovis Lend Lease to pick contractors to take down the Deutsche Bank building, which was contaminated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, they got some lulus. John Galt Corp, named for the Randian superman, made a botch of the job, and its purchasing agent Robert Chiar ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ "it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exci ... More >>

Barrett: Builder Blamed In Firefighter Deaths Is Building Bill Thompson's Wife's Museum

​Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor whose admitted failings contributed to the deaths of two firefighters at the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007, is building the $180 million museum and condo project on Fifth Avenue spearheaded by Elsie McCabe, the wife of mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thomp ... More >>

Barrett: Bill Thompson Responds To Our Allegations, Sort Of

​A few hours after I posted yesterday's item about Bill Thompson's mysterious ties to the contractor implicated in the Deutsche Bank fire, I got an e-mail protesting the story from Ed Castell, the campaign manager for Thompson's mayoral run. My story revealed that the $180 million museum/con ... More >>

Quick Hits

​Academia -- that's where all the money is, kids. Fast Company has some photos of the Julliard School's lavish new facilities at Alice Tully Hall. Cost: $325 million. Grady Sizemore nude, everybody! You won't catch us posting this, alas, as the Indians have put out an APB, saying the photos a ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ "I thought these only existed in cartoons." Twitpic by nataliemorales. Well, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are done and the War on Christmas is getting closer! How's that going? On the one hand, the Satanists managed to keep the sidewalk Santas out of New York; on the other, Christers mus ... More >>

Row Harder, Slaves! Productivity, Unemployment Claims Up, Costs Down

​Good news for whip-crackers: In the fourth quarter of 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals, U.S. productivity rose at a 6.2 percent annualized rate -- output up 7.2 percent, hours worked up one percent. It's the biggest such jump since 2002. Unit labor costs -- the ratio of hourl ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Former NYFD Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta was deeply involved in the Deutsche Bank debacle that cost two firefighters their lives. Now a change has come: Salvatore Cassano is commissioner. And he, says Wayne Barrett, is even more deeply involved. The posters for Gary Marshall's new film ... More >>

The Riverton, Latest Collapsed New York Housing Icon, Auctioned for $120M

​Under the gaze of Moses, King Solomon, Hammurabi, and Abraham Lincoln (in a mural on the ceiling of the New York County Courthouse rotunda), the latest sad drama in the city's real estate bust played out this morning with minimal fanfare. Speaking slowly and deliberately, the auctioneer finis ... More >>

Morning Billfold: Junk Bond Apocalypse Terror, Lehman's Snitches, Hedge Fund Rockstars

​Lehman Brothers weren't so happy about their whistleblowers. The "rock stars" of hedge funds aren't exactly proverbial Guitar Heroes. A 2.2 billion euro bonus went out to the "risk takers" of Deutsche Bank. CBS' March Madness ad money? Buzzer-beater quality stuff. And the new economic doomsda ... More >>

Your Morning Links

​Wednesday is, as our mom always told us, "Hump Day," which means only two more days until the weekend ... Woot. In the meantime, here's what you should know for today: • Speaking of moms, childbirth will probably not kill you. Dealing with your child may. • Sad news in China: A 7.1 mag ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg: Quick to Blame, Unless Your Name is Lloyd Blankfein

​Goldman Sachs, says Mike Bloomberg, "may not have done anything wrong and may have done everything right." "You've got to wait and give them the benefit of the doubt," says the mayor who rushed to condemn Plaxico Burress, several fire chiefs tied to the Deutsche Bank fire, and pro ... More >>

Robert Morgenthau is Back, and He's Mike Bloomberg's Problem

​ Two New Yorkers who don't necessarily view Mike Bloomberg as the greatest mayor of our time have now teamed up, and the result could be one big bad third term headache for the city's richest man. One of the Bloomy dissidents is Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis, a normally mild ... More >>

Richard Bartz+Richard Hinge

​ Two New Yorkers who don't necessarily view Mike Bloomberg as the greatest mayor of our time have now teamed up, and the result could be one big bad third term headache for the city's richest man. One of the Bloomy dissidents is Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis, a normally mild ... More >>

Three Years After Deadly Deutsche Bank Fire, Still No Real Justice

Beddia (left) and Graffagnino.By Gavin Aronsen In the three years since a fire at the former Deutsche Bank building claimed the lives of firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, not much has changed in the way of culpability for the negligence that led to their deaths. Standing near the ... More >>

Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New

​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>

CIA Connection in Libya?; Tropical Storm Lee to Hit Gulf Coast; Government Sues Banks

​Documents tying the CIA to the Qaddafi-led Libyan government were found in an abandoned office in Tripoli, the New York Times reports. The findings, which have not been verified for authenticity, allude to the practice of the American intelligence agency handing over terror suspects to the Li ... More >>

Ground Zero Tolerance

With no politician willing to take charge, the 9/11 recovery has dragged on far too long

Occupy Wall Street Re-Occupies Foreclosed Home in East New York: A Report From the Scene

Nick Pinto​Occupy Wall Street organizers ushered in a new phase of their movement yesterday when about 400 people participated in a collaborative takeover to re-occupy a vacant foreclosed home in East New York for a homeless family of four. The afternoon's event, part of a collaborative Nati ... More >>