
NYCHA plumber’s $465K payday sparks probe into outside work
A New York City public housing plumber who out-earned nearly every municipal employee last year is under investigation after records show he logged thousands of overtime hours while apparently running two private plumbing businesses on the side. Jakub Markowski, a plumber supervisor with the New Yor

Michael Shabsels lists Westhampton home for $75K a month
A real estate investor embroiled in a bankruptcy scandal is seeking a tenant for his Westhampton Beach property, listed at $75,000 per month. Michael Shabsels, who, with his brother, David Shabsels, built a now-bankrupt empire of summer camps that stretches up the East Coast, put his home at 275 Ma

Buckling ex-Pfizer HQ hit with multiple DOB violations last year
The former Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, where structural columns buckled on its 21st floor this morning leading to concerns of collapse, generated seven construction safety violations in 2025 with more than $32,000 in penalties. The city’s largest planned office-
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