A Brooklyn tower's elevator machine room was locked out from inspectors. A Bronx facade job ran a suspended scaffold with no foreman found on site. A Manhattan alteration let a sidewalk shed permit expire for months. All of it goes in front of an OATH/ECB judge on September 25, per city hearing records.

The Department of Buildings has referred at least 20 tickets to hearing for that date, spanning all five boroughs, according to OATH/ECB Hearings (Case Status) records. Most carry the same charge code — 28-301, failure to maintain a building or site in a code-compliant manner — but the underlying conditions range from routine paperwork to public-safety exposure.

At 426 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, Franklins Tower 26 LLC was cited after inspectors said they couldn't get into the elevator machine room, the elevator pit, or the roof wheel house to do a required inspection. The case has already been marked "in violation" with all terms met and a $625 penalty, per DOB records.

At 1033 Boston Road in the Bronx, Bay Restoration Corp was cited for a suspended scaffold used in facade work at the rear of the building without a designated supervisor or foreman available when inspectors asked, per DOB records. That ticket, along with four others tied to the same hearing date, is marked "defaulted" — meaning no one appeared to contest it — with $5,030 due.

Three separate tickets hit Gjushi Construction Co. from a single October 27 inspection at 240 Drake Street in the Bronx: a missing project information panel, a construction fence viewing panel built undersized without the required plexiglass, and a citation for failing to expose workers to a site-safety inspector after five were seen through the fence. All three are defaulted, per DOB records, with more than $4,800 combined due.

At 1880 Broadway in Manhattan, JRM Construction Mgmt LLC was cited over a sidewalk shed permit that DOT records showed expired the previous November, with no updated permit produced when inspectors asked, per DOB records. That case defaulted too, with $2,530 due.

Two life-safety cases stand out from the group. At 1530 Beach Avenue in the Bronx, New Beach Residence LLC was cited for obstructed sprinkler heads throughout the building and a door striking the sprinkler system, per DOB records; that one closed with a $1,250 penalty paid. At 128 Court Street in Brooklyn, a gas-fired water heater was ordered out of service over holes in the flue pipe — a hazard DOB records say had to be corrected before the unit could run again; that ticket defaulted, with $2,530 due.

Separately, DOB's complaint intake shows roughly 100 new complaints entered across the city in the past two days — a routine volume for the system, not evidence tied to any of the hearing cases above.

None of the disputed facts here have been tested by a judge; a hearing scheduled or a "defaulted" status is not a finding of wrongdoing beyond what OATH's own hearing result already states, and penalty amounts can still change on appeal or payment.

For contractors: a defaulted hearing doesn't go away — it converts to a final judgment and the balance keeps compiling interest until it's paid or contested. Firms with tickets on the September 25 calendar, or anyone checking a GC's track record before signing on, can search ticket numbers directly through NYC's OATH Hearings Division or the DOB violation lookup at a given BIN.