Employees are of the following positions: project manager, civil engineer, surveyor, construction inspector and CAD drafters.

Mrs. Rapoport, a computer programmer, studied English, while her husband, Yuriy, a civil engineer, became a construction inspector.

City officials say that of the 21 construction inspectors that the Department of Buildings has in Queens, 7 are assigned solely to investigate illegal conversions.

In roughly half the visits, inspectors are denied access, said Donald O'Connor, the chief construction inspector in Queens.

Luis Eduardo Rodriguez, a 56-year-old construction inspector, carried a white balloon down a street in northern Bogota at noon.

Hatch was born in Swanton, Vermont, the son of an inventor, and moved to New York City, where he found employment as a construction inspector.

Peripheral Moves "Local governments have been sharing health officers, construction inspectors, courts and computers, as well as public works equipment, for more than two decades," he said.

He worked as a construction inspector and later as a systems analyst.

Despite the budget crisis, Mr. Bruno's son Joseph is now a $45,000-a-year construction inspector in the Office of General Services.

Mr. Hooper, who said he was a construction inspector from Syracuse, said that in 20 years of taking arm's length photographs he has collected 2,000.