The Dept. of Buildings (DOB) has the power to offer a mediated resolution to landlords who don't comply with the city's building emissions law, bypassing fines if they promise to get back on track. But lawyers fear the provision leaves the door open for DOB to evoke it too freely.
Months away from finishing his prison sentence, the US government told Marco Flores it planned to deport him to his native El Salvador a place he had not seen since he was 6 years old.