The city has slapped an Upper West Side landlord with the first $5,000 fines under a new law passed to crack down on illegal hotels.
Hank Fried was whacked with a dozen fines totaling $60,000 for advertising rooms in the Marrakech Hotel on Broadway near 103rd St., which the city says is operating illegally in what is supposed to be a single-room-occupancy and apartment building.
A state law signed last fall prohibited the advertising of illegal units — ones that violate a prior law barring the renting of entire apartments for less than 30 days.
The law was pushed as a way to go after illegal listings on the home sharing site Airbnb. But Fried is not a host on that site, and instead advertised his units on Hotwire.com, Booking.com and other websites, city officials say.
3 comments:
>building is outright called a "Hotel"
>can't rent out rooms in it
It's Hank FREID.
nyc.gov/bis
The DOB Property Profile Overview for 2688 Bway shows 1) full stop work order (since 2010?), 2) DOF classifies building as "hotel" for tax purposes.
Department of Finance Building Classification: H3-HOTELS
Please Note: The Department of Finance's building classification information shows a building's tax status, which may not be the same as the legal use of the structure. To determine the legal use of a structure, research the records of the Department of Buildings.
STOP WORK ORDER EXISTS ON THIS PROPERTY
VIOLATION FOR FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION OF CLASS 1 VIOLATION EXISTS ON THIS PROPERTY - DOB CIVIL PENALTIES DUE
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