New York's OATH/ECB hearing docket for September 3 lists more than twenty Department of Buildings violations sustained as 'in violation,' per OATH/ECB Hearings (Case Status) records. The tickets span Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, with fines ranging from $300 to $12,500 apiece.

Four tickets cite failure to maintain a building facade. At 502 Park Avenue in Manhattan, Trump Park Avenue Condominium was cited for cracked and spalling concrete between the second and fourth floors — a $2,500 penalty. At 333 East 68th Street, 333 East 68th Street Corp. drew the same charge and fine for cracked masonry near the roof bulkhead. In Brooklyn, 2425 Haring Street LLC picked up two separate $2,500 tickets on the same day, June 1, for cracked brick and mortar at the parapet level of its buildings at 2465 and 2455 Haring Street.

Two active Manhattan high-rises drew scaffold citations. At 770 Lexington Avenue, Tower Services Inc. was cited twice on June 25 for a 20-story alteration job — once for an insulated thimble on an outrigger wire that didn't match the approved suspended-scaffold drawings, and once for missing planks and stored materials on top of overhead protection. Each ticket carried a $1,250 fine. At 2 Gold Street, a respondent listed on the violation as Rene Rodriguez Jr. was cited for scaffold anchorage bolts installed a foot apart instead of per the approved plan — also $1,250.

Two active construction sites drew housekeeping citations for debris blocking pathways. Omni Build Inc., building a proposed 15-story structure at 1477 3rd Avenue now at its fourth floor, was fined $1,250. DM80 Solutions LLC, running a one-story demolition at 610 West 46th Street, drew the same charge and fine for garbage mixed with metal debris on site.

Three buildings were cited for elevator maintenance failures. HP Washington Heights Portfolio, at 600 West 192nd Street, didn't provide inspectors access to the governor room, machine room, and pit — a $625 fine. At 674 West 161st Street, 674 Holding Ltd. was cited for a car door that scrapes loudly during operation. At 581 West 161st Street, Progressive Associates Proto P. was cited for an inoperative in-car phone and an unsecured overhead shaft door.

The steepest numbers on the docket belong to an owner who didn't show up. Zheng Zheng Geng, tied to 34-25 146th Street in Flushing, defaulted on four separate OATH hearings covering unpermitted structural, plumbing, electrical, and general construction work, all logged after a September 5, 2025 inspection. Total balance due across the four tickets: $45,500, per OATH's case-status data, which lists the hearing result as 'defaulted' with both the underlying fine and the added penalty now owed.

None of this week's tickets show an injury, a collapse, or a stop-work order — this is the routine grind of code enforcement, not an emergency. But it's a reminder for anyone with an open filing: OATH doesn't need you in the room to rule against you, and a default just adds the full penalty on top of what you already owed. DOB also logged roughly 100 new complaints citywide over the same 48 hours, per DOB Complaints Received data — unverified until inspected, but a sign the scrutiny isn't slowing down.

Anyone with an open ticket at these addresses, or bidding adjacent work, can pull the case numbers directly — 039555955P, 039555925Y, 039555891P, 039555892R, 035729684Y, 035729685X, 039159373K, and 039159372Z among them — through OATH's case-status portal. Anyone with a hearing on the calendar should show up. Four no-shows on one Queens address just turned into $45,500.

Source: OATH/ECB Hearings (Case Status), NYC Open Data (dataset jz4z-kudi): https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/OATH-Hearings-Division-Case-Status/jz4z-kudi