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NEW YORK — The administration of New York Mayor Eric Adams suspended an engineer Friday for failing to properly identify a support beam at the Bronx building that collapsed this week, but officials have yet to issue an official cause for the disaster. The city said it had suspended the inspection authorities of the engineer, Richard Koenigsberg, after he misidentified a load-bearing column as a decorative column this year. He had been hired by the building’s owner to inspect the property as part of a construction job. The engineer deemed the building “unsafe” in reports that he filed with the …

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