Nine New York City property owners and contractors face or have defaulted on OATH/ECB hearings scheduled for November 2, 2026, according to case records from the city's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. The dockets span five boroughs and include unpermitted work, facade maintenance failures, and one case where a respondent is cited for continuing work after a stop-work order had already been posted.
The most serious cluster involves a property at 710 Revere Avenue in the Bronx, listed to respondent Mendoza Pio. Per OATH/ECB records, the address drew five separate violations from a single June 17, 2026 inspection: electrical work without a permit for roughly eight outlets and six switches at the rear (45% complete, per the inspection notes), unpermitted partition walls in the basement (75% complete), a second unpermitted electrical scope covering about ten outlets, ten switches and a bathroom exhaust fan (also 75% complete), and — the most serious charge — unlawfully continuing work while on notice of a stop-work order. That last violation, carrying a $10,000 penalty, states a stop-work order was issued May 21, 2026 for an unpermitted structure in the rear yard and that work continued anyway, reaching roughly 50% complete "due to enclosure at Exposure 3." All four Mendoza Pio tickets show hearing results of "in violation" with a combined $17,500 in penalties outstanding as of the case status record, and all are scheduled for a November 2 hearing by phone.
Separately, a Class 2 elevator violation at 701 Elton Avenue in the Bronx, filed against 701 Elton Residence LLC, cites inaccessible machine-room access during a July 17, 2026 inspection and an in-car emergency communication device not connected to a monitoring line, per DOB records carried in the OATH case file. That case has already been resolved — compliance status reads "All Terms Met" with the $625 penalty unassessed — but it heads to a hearing confirmation this week.
Four facade and building-maintenance cases are also on the November 2 docket, each marked "defaulted" after the respondent did not appear. They include 520 Manhattan Avenue in Manhattan (Angelou Court Associates LP, two counts of failure to maintain the building in a code-compliant manner — loose facade stone and a detached sidewalk panel, $12,530 combined), 266 Washington Avenue in Brooklyn (266 Washington Avenue Investor, cited for cracked mortar and masonry on a six-story multiple dwelling, plus a separate certificate-of-correction default), and 92-29 Lamont Avenue in Queens (92-29 Lamont Ave Owners Corp, a cracked first-floor window at the building's south elevation). A fourth, at 725 Avenue T in Brooklyn (Again Realty LLC), cites missing guardrails at a porch roughly four feet above grade — inspectors noted only caution tape tied to chairs as a barrier — plus a second violation for unpermitted electrical wiring (BX cable) visible on the front elevation. Both Again Realty violations carry defaulted hearing results and a combined $20,500 in penalties, per OATH records.
A Sunnyside, Queens commercial site at 39-44 47th Avenue, tied to respondent D. Casamento & Son Inc., drew three citations from a single September 23, 2025 inspection: hot-works operations without a fire watch present, construction work not conforming to approved plans, and use of an electrical grinder without a safety guard. All three are listed as defaulted with a combined $3,840 due.
The city's DOB Complaints Received dataset logged roughly 100 new complaints in the 48 hours ending November 1, including elevator-related entries at addresses in Sunnyside, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway and Rego Park. A complaint entry is an unverified report, not a finding, and none of this week's new complaints have yet produced a docketed violation.