Fourteen OATH/ECB hearings closed October 1 with the same verdict across five Manhattan addresses and one Bronx building: in violation, per Department of Buildings hearing records.
The heaviest load landed on 211 West 101st Street in Manhattan, where Frant Hotel LLC was found in violation on seven separate tickets from a single June 11 inspection sweep. The penalties there total $8,525 and cover a wide spread of conditions: blocked access to main electrical panels in the basement, prohibited outdoor use of electrical metallic tubing to power a light fixture and exit sign, a Federal FST-80 dual-fuel boiler cited for exposed wiring and a defective steam gauge, a rusted and deteriorating water ground clamp on the main house electrical system, blocked fire escapes on the third and fifth floors, and an elevator with an expired fire extinguisher service tag and missing maintenance log. Each ticket carries its own penalty, per DOB records, ranging from $500 to $2,400.
At 360 West 117th Street, also in Manhattan, a respondent listed as Abdul Muhammad Garden of Eden was found in violation on two sidewalk-shed tickets from a June 18 inspection — one for a missing information panel on the shed's parapet, the other for a shed kept in place under a permit (M00918801) that had expired March 5. Combined penalties: $2,500. A related entity, Garden of Eden Associates L P, was separately cited at 2211 8th Avenue for an inoperative in-car emergency communication system and a non-functioning alarm bell on an elevator, a $1,250 penalty, per the same hearing calendar.
Common Ground Community IV Hou was found in violation twice at 197 Bowery — hole penetrations in an eighth-floor bathroom and missing trap wraps with open-ended toilet seats throughout the building — for a combined $5,000 in penalties, per DOB records.
Western Waterproofing Com was cited at 767 5th Avenue for sidewalk-shed construction that didn't match its own self-certified plans: post spacing off by several feet in two expansion joints and a solid parapet installed six feet high against a code maximum of four feet. Combined penalties there total $7,500, per DOB records.
In the Bronx, 2917 LLC was found in violation twice at 2917 Grand Concourse — a blocked fire-escape egress on the fifth floor with a window-mounted AC unit, plus construction debris piling up on the third floor, and separately for facade cracking and missing mortar on two building faces. Combined penalties: $3,750, per DOB records.
None of the fourteen tickets involve reported injuries or a stop-work order. All remain listed with a compliance status of 'Penalty Due' as of the October 1 hearing date, per DOB records, meaning none of the penalties has yet been paid.
For contractors working sidewalk sheds, elevators, or electrical rough-in on occupied buildings, the common thread here is maintenance and permit lapses catching up with ownership — not new construction defects. A shed permit renewal missed by seven months, a fire extinguisher tag left unchecked, a ground clamp nobody looked at: none of it is complicated to fix, and all of it was cheaper to catch before an inspector did.
Property owners and managing agents can look up open ECB balances and hearing schedules through the DOB's OATH/ECB case status portal; penalties listed as due accrue additional late fees until paid or resolved on appeal.