He was interviewed more than seven hundred times, and he wrote forty-five thousand letters.
"It's a horrible thing," said a Belle Harbor man, who had been interviewed more than twenty times.
In addition, The Times interviewed more than 250 state and federal regulators, water-system managers, environmental advocates and scientists.
The Times interviewed more than 200 tenants, housing activists and government employees; reviewed thousands of pages of court records and building permits; and examined several government databases.
This month, The New York Times interviewed more than two dozen of them, from Morocco to the West Bank, to find out how they consider their moment in history and their generation's prospects for the future.
In reconstructing the deadly blaze, The New York Times interviewed more than two dozen survivors; relatives of the victims; Bangladeshi fire officials; garment factory owners and managers; auditors; and others.
In an attempt to unravel what really happened, spurred in part by articles in two European newspapers suggesting that the bombing had been deliberate, The New York Times interviewed more than 30 officials in Washington and in Europe.
Over all, The Times interviewed more than 100 current and former Amazon employees, including many who spoke on the record and some who requested anonymity because they had signed agreements saying they would not speak to the press.
The New York Times interviewed more than 150 nail salon workers and owners, in four languages, and found that a vast majority of workers are paid below minimum wage; sometimes they are not even paid.
The New York Times interviewed more than three dozen current and former residents of the neighborhood, as well as tenant advocates, lawyers and sociologists, to explore the paths they travel after Crown Heights, to eastern Brooklyn, to the South or even back to the Caribbean.
The Times interviewed more than two dozen migrants on board the ship, the Aquarius, during the 10-day rescue mission.
