A woke Manhattan Democrat has spent years blocking a building-safety measure she once championed, as she has hauled in tens of thousands of dollars in donations from architecture and engineering special interests that oppose it, records show. Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick has consistently stymied a bill introduced by her colleague, Democratic Brooklyn Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, that would suspend professional licenses for architects and engineers who abuse self-certification privileges.Self certification allows registered engineers and architects to approve projects for construction without any plan examination by the Department of Buildings. The system began in 1995.
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