DOB issued four violation notices to landlord based on transient use of a building apartment. DOB's inspector testified that he saw six people exiting the basement/first-floor duplex door to the unit. Some had...
DOB issued two violation notices to landlord, citing work without a permit in a building apartment. At a hearing, DOB's inspector testified and presented photographs showing that plumbing work, including new...
DOB issued two violation notices to landlord based on findings that four rooms at a mixed Class "A"/SRO unit building had been converted and occupied for transient use. DOB also found that on the second...
DOB issued two violation notices to landlord for failing to keep a gas meter room free of storage items and failure to maintain a building in a safe and code-compliant condition. DOB's inspector had seen washers...
DOB issued two violation notices to landlord for altering a two-family dwelling to four or more units. The ALJ upheld the violations and fined landlord $47,400. Landlord appealed and lost. Proof presented at the...
DOB issued a violation notice to landlord for unlawfully continuing work while on notice of a stop-work order (SWO) at his building. The SWO was issued in April 2009 for a foundation being erected without a permit....
DOB issued a violation notice to landlord's fire sprinkler contractor for violating the plumbing code by failing to perform a special inspection of an alternative engineered design plumbing system. The contractor...
DOB issued a violation notice to landlord for failing to file a boiler inspection report. At a hearing, DOB claimed that the boiler report for boiler no. 66854 hadn't been filed since 2002. Landlord pointed out...
DOB issued violation notices to landlord for installing a rooftop water tank without a permit, failing to have a new or altered plumbing system tested, and failing to certify correction of these violations. Landlord...
Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal of ECB's decision to uphold seven violation notices issued by DOB. Landlord claimed that the violation notices weren't properly delivered. The court ruled against...
DOB issued a violation notice to a plumbing contractor hired by HPD to replace the existing 1-inch piping that fed the building's boiler, hot water heater, and stoves in two apartments with 3/4 inch piping, in...
DOB issued a violation notice to landlord for altering a two-family residence to one occupied by five families. DOB's inspector observed the creation of three SRO units on the first floor of the building and one...
