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    Owner defeats sign violations

    Business Signs  •  Borough Park, Brooklyn

    6103 15th Avenue in Brooklyn. Image : Yelp.

    Buildings charged new owner with installing business signs without permits. In June 1998 Tovia Fleischman acquired two buildings in Brooklyn located at 6103 and 6106 15th Avenue. The properties house Fleischman’s kitchenware wholesale business. (read more…)

    Date:01/09/2018
    Category : Court Decisions, Department Of Buildings
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    Owner fined: filed bad building plan

    Unlawful construction  •  East Harlem

    169 East 117 Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: CityLand.

    Owner’s rooftop apartment did not conform to plans filed by architect with the Department of Buildings. In 2003 the Anastasia Pleskun Living Trust purchased the building located at 169 East 117 Street.  The Trust hired a licensed architect in 2004 who drew up and filed self-certified plans, a process that bypassed a full review of the plans by the Department of Buildings. (read more…)

    Date:01/08/2018
    Category : Court Decisions, Department Of Buildings
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    Fined $47,400 for unlawful conversion

    Illegal occupancy  •  Flushing, Queens

    Owner converted two-family Queens home into a six-family residence.  Jimming Zhao owns a residential building located at 143-10 Beech Avenue, Queens with a certificate of occupancy for a one or two-family dwelling. On October 17, 2016 an inspector from the Department of Buildings visited the premises and found the residence altered and occupied by six families. The second floor had four single room occupancies and the first floor had two single room occupancies. (read more…)

    Date:01/04/2018
    Category : Court Decisions, Department Of Buildings
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    W Hotel cited for grease traps violation

    Grease Traps  •  Upper East Side

    W Hotel at 541 Lexington Ave., Manhattan. Image Credit: CityLaw.

    The W New York ordered to install 19 new grease traps. On November 3, 2016, a Department of Environmental Protection officer found that the grease interceptors at the W Hotel at 541 Lexington Ave., Manhattan did not conform to DEP’s standards. The inspector directed the hotel owner to install and maintain properly-sized grease interceptors in seventeen designated locations on the first and second floor at the hotel. On March 1, 2017, a DEP officer cited the hotel for failing to comply with the order. (read more…)

    Date:01/03/2018
    Category : Court Decisions, Department of Environment Protection
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    Triton Structural Concrete Failed to Reserve $790,125 Claim

    Change Order  •  Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island

    Image Credit: Triton.

    Contractor hired to repair Hurricane Sandy damage failed to list dispute when seeking time extensions on project. In 2009, the Department of Design and Construction awarded Triton Structural Concrete, Inc. a $105,003,443 contract to rebuild and repair various beachfront structures in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The contract required Triton to install prefabricated modular buildings on driven pile foundations along several sections of the beachfront. (read more…)

    Date:01/02/2018
    Category : Court Decisions, Department of Design and Construction
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