As part of Construction Safety Week 2007 this spring, officials from the New York City Department of Buildings, the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration joined representatives from the Latin American Workers’ Project to speak to laborers about construction safety and distribute informational materials in multiple languages at a worker center in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst Park district. From left: Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster; N.Y.C. Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman; Rich Mendelson, OSHA Manhattan area director; Robert Kulick, OSHA Avenel area director; and Diana Cortez, OSHA Tarrytown area director. (Photo by Larry Racioppo)

Community leaders, along with New York state and local officials, joined the Clarett Group as it unveiled Forté, a new residential tower in Brooklyn. From left: Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn borough president; Karen Hopkins, president, Brooklyn Academy of Music; Joe Chan, president, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership; Veronica Hackett, managing partner, Clarett; and Bruce Fowle, architect, FXFowle Architects.

New Destiny Housing Corp. recently hosted a cocktail party to honor building industry leaders who work to provide safe, low-income housing for domestic violence survivors. Honoree Allan Arker (far right), principal with the Arker Cos., is pictured with, from left: Kirk Goodrich, Enterprise; Robert Marcello, supporter of Marcello Manor; Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr.; and Martin Newman, New Destiny founding board member, and Daniel Moritz, an Arker associate.