Research associates Doris Burke and Susan M. Kaufman contributed to this article. the hazards. Web60 Wall Street (formerly the J.P. Morgan Bank Building or Deutsche Bank Building) is a 55-story, [a] 745-foot-tall (227 m) skyscraper on Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. Buildings are rising, streets are being repaved, and to most visitors the Deutsche Bank building is just an afterthought. Blowing smoke: Lawsuit against licensed cannabis shop site goes after wrong target, Open States secret Nazi files: Secretary of State Tony Blinken must publish the sordid U.S. history of coddling Nazis, Ethics and Albany just dont mix: The state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government may violate the New York Constitution, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Deutsche Bank's steel to be recycled for food cans, car parts Joseph Graffagnino Sr. told Eyewitness News reporter Joe Torres that there is no joy this Christmas. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement: "We will now be Schick floated a trial balloon: Perhaps it would be worth testing the level of contaminants to determine whether a less demanding cleanup method might work? If anything, the Galt and Bovis team was more incensed than the EPA. Terms & Conditions. breakdowns that led to the fire. How did this project manage to be simultaneously hyper-scrutinized - with armies of regulators and monitors on the premises daily - and sloppy and out of control? The building's wide base (it consumed two separate blocks) gave the structure a squat look, and the result was aesthetically uninspiring. John Gallagher, a spokesman for the development agency, said that workers had been conducting abatement of asbestos and other contaminants on the roof. Every participant was fair game. than 3 million documents and presented 80 witnesses to the grand "Everybody who could have screwed up, screwed up here," But accidents continued to occur. Preparation for demolition has stopped and started several times over environmental concerns. The government unintentionally contributed to that feeling. And how is it that this skyscraper, the subject of tens of millions of dollars' worth of environmental studies, is today described by some as a toxic nightmare and by others as only marginally contaminated? The buildings have become a popular backdrop in print media and television as a symbol for the German economy because of the role that Deutsche Bank plays as one of the most important global banking and financial services companies. Cable News Network. How did they get the contract? inside the building, and an air pressure system created more smoke. Together they jumped right into the fray, greeting the LMDC's plan to decontaminate and demolish the building with 23 pages of comments and criticisms. On a crisp recent March day the Deutsche Bank building, which has been largely dormant since last summer's fire, buzzes with activity. But the struggle to extinguish the flames had cost two lives. One Bankers Trust Plaza, as the Deutsche Bank building was originally called, has always existed in the shadow of the World Trade Center - first literally, and then metaphorically. acknowledged it hadn't regularly inspected the building, as city Lend Lease that requires both of them to institute major safety