The Department of Buildings issued a cluster of violations this week at 456 East 173rd Street in the Bronx, all against respondent Procida Construction Corp, according to ECB violation records. One Class 1 violation, served October 24, cites masonry construction above an adjoining property at Exposure 4 "without adequate falling-object protection," which DOB says exposed parked vehicles and pedestrians to falling material; the penalty was $10,000. A second violation that day cited cement bags stored on pallets in a roadway storage zone without safeguards against displacement. Two more, both Class 2, cited an unlocked sliding entrance gate allowing public access to the site and a watchperson who lacked valid state security registration and FDNY watchperson certification. All four carry a January 6, 2027 hearing date.
At 135-28 37th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, DOB cited respondent Great Stone Gen'l Const* three times in records served October 24. The most serious, a Class 1 violation with a $10,000 penalty, states that inspectors observed workers on a 7th-8th floor scaffold performing exterior work while a stop-work order — SWO #4A52660, in place since September 24 — remained in effect. A second violation the same day says workers denied DOB inspectors access before moving to the scaffold and resuming work; a third cites work performed under an after-hours variance that specifically forbade scaffold use or exterior work above 75 feet.
Elsewhere, DOB cited C&M Drywall & Acoustic Co at 53-75 65th Place in Maspeth, Queens for an inactive jobsite over 5,000 square feet with no watchperson present, and separately for jersey barriers and a construction fence occupying the roadway and sidewalk without an occupancy permit. At 669 Park Avenue in Brooklyn, respondent Yatziv Corp was cited for jersey barriers installed without required interlocking connections or ballast. At 456 Route 206 in South Sandyston, New Jersey — tied to a six-story new-building site at BIN 2130564 — respondent Sandyston Construction Co drew two Class violations for a deteriorating construction fence and an inadequate, unramped pedestrian walkway.
Separately, a Class 1 violation served October 23 against Conrock Construction LLC, tied to a site at 11 Seventh Street, Pelham, cites failure to electronically file notice of an incident that resulted in a fatality or injury within the required three business days, per DOB records; the violation does not describe the underlying incident itself. DOB also cited Warner Construction Services for an 11-story new-building site at found to be locked and inactive during an inspection, with no response to shouting or banging on the gate.
None of the respondent firms named above responded to requests for comment as of this writing.
What to do next
If you're running a site anywhere near these addresses or working for any of these firms, expect DOB to be back — a $10,000 penalty for working through a stop-work order, as at the Flushing high-rise, typically signals the department is escalating, not closing the file. Watchperson credentials are a recurring theme across three separate sites this week; any GC using third-party site security should confirm NYS guard registration and FDNY watchperson certification are current before DOB asks. And the Conrock violation is worth flagging to every safety officer on a crew: the three-business-day electronic incident-reporting clock runs regardless of whether DOB happens to be on site when something happens.