The one thing I love most about my job here at the Department of Buildings is that each day is met with a hint of mystery. This job is not one of those nine to five-rs that is basically that same thing day in and day out. No, here at DOB, each new day can be completely different from the previous one – and to me – that’s what makes this job so exciting.

This month has been a classic example of how different this job can be with each passing day. At DOB, our job is to monitor, regulate and enforce the almost one million buildings that are under our jurisdiction throughout the five boroughs of New York City. This month – we dealt with everything but buildings. Instead of press calls coming in about the usual building issues – we have dealt with a floating barge, a garbage truck, a tree – and Donald Trump.

When you work as a spokesperson for the City, you have deal with the press all the time. Sometimes, the phones are quiet except for minor building inquiries – and sometimes – the phone doesn’t stop ringing. But when the calls are about obscure and downright unusual issues – it makes the day less hectic and go by quicker.

Take this month for example. First, my Commissioner notices a floating barge with an advertising sign going up the Hudson River from his window, so we boarded a barge and chased it up the river. Then, not more then a few days later, a garbage truck plows through an auto repair center and into a house, so we have to figure out how we plan to remove the truck safely from the house. And then – if that was not enough – we got calls that a building owner planned to demolish a house – and take Staten Island’s tallest tree with it – so we “sprung into action” and were heralded for saving the tree from certain death.

The clincher of this unique and certainly memorable month was when the New York Times did a story on my Commissioner and misquoted – of all people – Donald Trump in the article. So “The Donald” called my Commissioner to do something that he is not exactly known for doing every day – personally apologize for the misquote.

All of this comes in between more building incidents in the past month then I have ever experienced since my tenure began at the Department. I am not exaggerating when I say that it had to be at least one every other day. A piece of a façade falls here, a wall collapses there. So much stuff was falling throughout the City – I half expected to get a call from Chicken Little telling me that the sky was falling. But, thanks to all of us working together, we got through probably the toughest month the Department has seen in a really long time.

Since I am the spokesman for the Department of Buildings – I think I can speak for everyone at DOB when I say, “WHAT A MONTH!”

And you can quote me on that.