The city's OATH tribunal closed out a batch of Department of Buildings hearings this week, and the pattern in the paperwork is hard to miss: sidewalk sheds that don't match the plans on file.

At 73 Wilson Street in Brooklyn, Meridian Construction Grp was found in violation on three separate tickets tied to a single June 4 inspection, per DOB records filed under OATH/ECB Hearings. One citation, under Building Code 3301, cites failure to post the sidewalk shed plans on site — inspectors asked for them and nobody produced them. The other two, both under BC 3307, cite cross-bracing that didn't meet the minimum spacing required on the shed's vertical members, and shed construction that didn't account for an active driveway at one exposure. All three were decided September 11 in a phone hearing, with penalties of $1,250, $2,400, and $2,400 — $6,050 total, still shown as due.

A fourth shed case, at 1794 Clinton Avenue in the Bronx, hit New Line Construction LLC with two BC 3307 pedestrian-protection violations and one for work not conforming to approved documents — inspectors noted a Lull piece of equipment parked in the work zone with no plywood-and-mesh barrier, and timber barriers standing in for the Jersey barriers the site's DOT permit required. A separate ticket at the same address cited no competent watchperson on duty outside working hours. Combined penalties: $9,900, also decided September 11.

At 1850 Second Avenue in Manhattan, Jimco Renovation Corp was cited twice — April 30 and June 30 — for a shed and controlled-access zone that didn't match the approved site safety plan; inspectors described missing bays, misaligned posts, bent header beams and deteriorated steel on the shed, and garbage stored under overhead protection meant to shield pedestrians. Both were decided September 10, for $1,250 apiece.

Away from the shed cases: Euroyal NY Corp was fined $2,500 twice for demolition work at 3385 and 3389 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx that proceeded, per the violation record, without the 24-to-48-hour advance notice DOB requires before full demolition begins. And at 287 Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn, 287 Prospect Associates was cited for continuing work while a prior stop-work order — issued back in April 2024 — was still in effect, a charge that carries a $25,000 total violation amount on the record.

None of this week's dispositions involve an injury or an active stop-work order today — these are OATH's rulings on citations written months earlier, now resolved 'in violation' with penalties outstanding. But the shed citations share a throughline: three separate GCs, three separate addresses, all cited for site-safety hardware that didn't match the plan on file. For anyone bidding sidewalk-shed or protection work this fall, the paperwork trail is the reminder — DOB checks the plan against the shed, not just the shed against the sidewalk.