Last year construction safety coordinator Bianca Wisniewski filed a $20 million lawsuit charging she was sexually harassed at a JPMorgan Chase construction site on Park Avenue. (Among the alleged abuses were elevator operator Steve Greco's comment to Wisniewski that "Everybody kisses engineer Steve. This is a man's world, not a place for women to work.") Sadly, Wisniewski died in a tragic fire in her flushing apartment several months later, just one day before she was to testify against her former employer. (The FDNY decided the fire was accidentally caused by a candle falling on a sofa.)
But the lawsuit didn't die with her; Wisniewski's teenage daughters, who survived the blaze, are pursuing the case. In a poignant Daily News article, daughter Nicole Kuros, a college student studying to be a nurse, says, "It had been just the three of us. Our dad died when I was seven. Now we're alone, but we want to do this for our mom. My mom had the courage to stand up for herself and say you can't treat people this way. She had courage. That's what we are doing. Standing up for her, and for us."
