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Buildings chief slammed after crane collapse

In May 2007, a beaming buildings commissioner, Patricia Lancaster, stood alongside the mayor to unveil what many had predicted was an impossible task: the first revision of the city's building code in nearly four decades.

Nearly a year later, after a series of deadly construction-related accidents -- including last weekend's midtown crane collapse, which killed seven, Lancaster is facing...

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