Twenty-three Department of Buildings violations head to OATH/ECB hearings on October 7, almost all of them from one Brooklyn borough office calendar, per OATH/ECB Hearings (Case Status) records. Every case listed carries a "HEARING COMPLETED" status with a result of "IN VIOLATION" already logged against it, and penalties ranging from $500 to $1,250 per ticket.
The single biggest cluster is site-safety-plan non-conformance — DOB's code B282, "work does not conform to approved construction documents." Six of the tickets cite it. At 40 19th Street in Brooklyn (block 635, lot 9), DOB cited Hunter Roberts Construction Group for a roughly 150-foot gap in required fencing along the property line at Exposure 2, between 19th and 20th Streets, per the violation record. At 8 Walworth Street (block 1716, lot 33), an inspector cited Blue Elm Inc after observing an excavation approximately 20 feet by 40 feet and 8 feet deep at Exposure 3, with the approved plans calling for rakers to be installed before excavation began. At 87 Herbert Street (block 2829, lot 39), Best BC Construction Inc was cited for pump jacks installed at an exposure not shown on the site safety plan, with overhead protection extending only 6 to 8 feet from the adjacent property where the plan calls for roughly 16.6 feet. At 997 Rogers Avenue (block 5138, lot 54), MJH Construction Corp drew two separate tickets the same morning — one for a construction fence installed on an expired permit, another for a sidewalk shed inspectors found missing bracing, with columns reported out of plumb and not built to the approved drawings. At 643 Grand Street (block 2781, lot 36), Rogers Developers Grp LLC was cited after an inspector found no overhead protection at the corner of Exposures 2 and 3 and ordered a stop to all work within 20 feet of that corner, contrary to the approved site safety plan. And at 38 Dodworth Street (block 3230, lot 13), AB Builders NY was cited for a pump jack scaffold installed at Exposure 2 with no supporting details in the department-approved documents on site.
A second cluster is expired permits on temporary equipment — construction fences and sidewalk sheds running past their approved dates. DOB cited J J Designs Inc at 176 Washington Park (Brooklyn, block 2072, lot 1) after finding no active permit for a supported scaffold and shed that had expired July 27. All Borough Group Svc Inc drew a similar ticket at 1010 Bushwick Avenue (block 3321, lot 28), a seven-story new building where an inspector found a construction fence still up after the department's records showed the permit had lapsed.
Elsewhere on the calendar: at 209 North 11 Street in Williamsburg, North 11 Suites LLC was cited for elevator maintenance failures, including a misaligned cab mirror and an illegal vestibule at the top landing. On Staten Island, North Shore Houses Preservation drew two separate elevator tickets at 65 Holland Avenue for the same building — a non-working phone and missing or unfilled required inspection tags (CAT-1, CAT-5, rope and brake tags). Four more tickets, each carrying a $500 penalty, cite zoning resolution violations for front-yard paving over required planting at addresses in Mill Basin, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach.
All 23 hearings are calendared for October 7 at Brooklyn's OATH tribunal (Brooklyn 3) or, in the Staten Island elevator case, Staten Island 5. DOB's compliance-status field marks each case "All Terms Met" as of this writing, meaning the respondent has satisfied the hearing's administrative terms, not that the underlying condition has necessarily been corrected or reinspected.
For contractors working under a site safety plan, the read-through here is the B282 cluster: six tickets in one week for work that drifted from what's actually on file with the department, on fencing, overhead protection, excavation sequencing, and scaffold type. A site safety plan is a controlling document, not a formality — if your fence line, your pump jacks, or your excavation sequence don't match the drawing on file, that mismatch is independently citable even if the underlying work is otherwise sound. Anyone running a shed or scaffold on borrowed time should also check their permit expiration dates before an inspector does it first; two of this week's tickets were exactly that.
Case records are public via DOB's OATH/ECB Hearings (Case Status) dataset (NYC Open Data, dataset ID jz4z-kudi). Respondents or their counsel can review hearing specifics at the OATH/ECB docket for the ticket numbers cited above.