From The Real Deal:The Department of Buildings has issued 34 full and 75 partial stop work orders as part of a citywide safety inspection of 920 low-rise construction sites, the agency said. The orders covered 12 percent of the 920 sites inspected as part of “Operation: Low Rise.”
The two-month investigation, concluded today, netted more than $954,000 in penalties from violations, the department said. The mostly minimal violations included missing fences, missing guardrails, missing fire extinguishers and work without proper permits, the news release said.
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LiMandri is just another empty suit. He does not even look smart.
Full or partial stop work orders -- illegal work still goes on. They can write the violations when they want to or when they are pressued to do so. What they need to do is to figure out how to collect on them.
A violation that is not paid in 30 days should cause an immediate lien to be put on the property. Doubling and tripling the fines is pointless. It is not a deterent. Most of the time they are either reduced down to almost nothing and many times they are waived.
Bottomline, the overall operation of the DOB has not markedly improved. They revamped the Building Code -- and still do not enforce it to the letter.
They do not interpret the zoning resolutions the way they were meant to be interpreted. Therefore, they do not enforce them either.
The DOB is still dysfunctional and corrupt. Nothing has changed. They have major in-house problems. All new construction should cease until a major overhaul is done at the DOB.
Matter of fact, they are totally ineffective. When they make a mistake and you pin them to the wall you may get them to say they "erred".
Then, we live with the crap that people like Tommy Huang built -- illegal and unsafe construction.
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