Though signs warned of danger — “Cancer and lung disease hazard” — asbestos-laced anti-vibration cloth in a vent fan system was no threat to 1,000 workers at the MTA’s East New York bus ...

From the first death attributed to asbestos exposure at a workplace — Nellie Kershaw’s, who worked at a company that wove asbestos cloth and died in 1924 — the evidence shows that companies ...

Asbestos-laced cloth will be isolated from the ventilation system at one of the city’s biggest bus depots, the Daily News has learned. Contractors on Friday will begin encapsulating the cloth… ...