Twenty ECB tickets are on the docket for Brooklyn 3's hearing room this Wednesday, September 23, all issued by the Department of Buildings between July 14 and July 20, and all currently marked "in violation" per OATH/ECB hearing records.
The one that ought to get an estimator's attention: 139 Woodbine Street in Bushwick, where DOB cited John Evan Contracting Cor twice from the same July 20 inspection. The bigger charge — code B282, work not conforming to approved construction documents — describes five rear balconies built with support columns that don't appear on the approved drawings. A second ticket at the same address, same day, cites missing or defective floor-numbering signage. Both carry a $1,250 penalty and both show a September 23 hearing date, per DOB records.
Two fence-permit violations at 719 and 729 Van Sinderen Avenue in East New York went to Northeast Specialist Group, both for a construction fence left up on an expired permit (B01292789-S1-FN and B01338684-I1-FN, both lapsed July 1) — $1,250 each, per DOB records. A third expired-permit fence ticket hit LXC Construction Inc at 862 55th Street in Sunset Park, and a fourth went to L L Construction Develop at 1683 70th Street in Bensonhurst, that one for an expired scaffold permit (B01379002) covering all four exposures of a supported sidewalk shed — also $1,250, also on the Brooklyn 3 docket.
Elevator maintenance produced four separate tickets this cycle, each carrying the lower $625 penalty that applies to elevator and conveying-system violations: 231 Ocean Avenue in Crown Heights (superintendent reportedly refused MR-room access during inspection), 1299 Ocean Avenue in Midwood (the building's only elevator out of service, cited as hazardous to occupants including those with special needs), 1800 Avenue L in Midwood (roof machine-room keys not immediately available), and 3111 Aurelia Court in Midwood (misaligned cab mirror, same key-access issue). All four cite BC 3001.6 or the 28-304 elevator-maintenance code, per DOB records.
Two active construction sites drew safety-plan violations for inadequate street protection: 151 Starr Street in Bushwick (All Borough Group Svc, an active four-story new building in excavation, cited for an incomplete work-and-storage enclosure) and 638 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg (Detailed Construction Inc, an active six-story alteration, cited for jersey barriers that don't fully enclose stored material). Both are $1,250 tickets, per DOB records.
The rest of the calendar is routine facade and housekeeping enforcement: unbracketed AC window units at 950 East 5th Street, 676 East 5th Street, and 574 President Street (the last also cited for facade repointing and a vertical crack); debris and combustible material left at a closed site at 98 Van Sickle Street in Gravesend; a garbage bin and portable water tank blocking stairwells at 25 Flatbush Avenue; household items on fire-escape landings at 1414 Brooklyn Avenue (Flatbush Gardens); and a blocked electrical service panel at 59 Wilson Avenue in Bushwick, where DOB records show the obstruction was a piano.
None of this week's docket shows a penalty actually imposed or paid yet — all twenty tickets list $0 paid against total violation amounts ranging from $500 to $1,250, with hearings just now getting underway. For contractors and building owners with tickets on this calendar, compliance status reads "All Terms Met" in the current record, but the hearing outcomes for September 23 are what will actually set the imposed penalty.
Separately, DOB's complaint system logged 100 new complaints citywide in the two days before this filing, spanning categories from illegal conversions to elevator and boiler issues — routine volume, not confirmation of any specific incident, and none of it ties to the tickets above.