"Accidents will happen"...

...more frequently as Bruce gets desperate to get Altantic Yards off and running before bonds dry out and skepticism rises. Being a low-life has it's advantages, it allows you to have an absolutely clear conscious when you try to kick kids out of a high school so you can build luxury condos, and when called on, it you can pay someone to deny you ever proposed it. Now we have a convenient 'road collapse' that auspiciously helps to advance closing Fifth avenue ("hey its broken anway!") and advance Ratner's agenda. Like Jososha Guttman's convenient case of arson, its helps create a reality on the ground and effectively kill debate. Look for more of these 'accidents' to occur in the future. Its just a coincidence, but they'll always somehow be a boon a for the developer.

Bloomberg, in relentless campaign to bring more tax revenue (at the expense of more future cost, and lower quality of life) will make sure officials are disinterested in pursuing justice. The message is clear to developers: burn, cheat, destroy, flout the law - as long as you can promise future tax revenues (even if the claims are false) you're Mike Bloomberg's friend.