The city's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings has a stack of Department of Buildings cases on its calendar for October 9, and per OATH/ECB records, most of them share the same status: defaulted.
At 51-43 48th Street in Queens, OATH records show a $25,000 balance due on a facade violation. DOB's charge describes a wall at the building's third exposure "in a substantial state of disrepair with a layer of concrete plaster being severely deteriorated." The hearing, originally set earlier, has been rescheduled to October 9 after the respondent, listed as Rosero Fabian E., defaulted.
A similar facade complaint is pending against a building at 717 Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, cited to Holy Trinity Seed Ministries. DOB's violation notes "brickwork bowing outward with several visible cracks and separation." That case also defaulted and was rescheduled to October 9, per OATH records, with a $2,530 balance outstanding.
Two scaffold and safety-equipment violations tied to 125 Martense Street in Brooklyn, respondent Ace Maintenance USA LLC, also default to the October 9 docket. One cites a "make shift pulley system" on the seventh floor held by planks and sandbags; another cites missing guardrails along exposed walls in stairwells with what DOB's inspector measured as a roughly 70-foot drop to ground level, tied to a stop-work order under permit application 340761544. A third violation at the same address cites exposed, unsecured electrical panels in occupied apartments. Combined penalties across the three total $12,590, per OATH records.
At 504 West 141st Street in Manhattan, two more violations against Simmons Lane LLC default to the same date: an expired construction fence permit and a separate citation describing a stalled new-building project under an expired permit, with windows "open to the elements and/or rodents" on each floor. Combined, DOB's penalty assessments on those two total $8,125.
Also on the list: a worked-and-closed case at 3311 3rd Avenue in the Bronx, where OATH records show a hearing completed in May with a finding of "in violation" for an illegal cellar-level studio apartment built into a space marked for bike storage, contrary to the certificate of occupancy and the filed architectural drawings. That case is listed as compliant, with all terms met and a $1,250 penalty.
None of these matters have gone to a contested hearing on the merits; a default under OATH's rules means the respondent did not appear, not that guilt was established by argument. Each case remains open for any statutory right to move to vacate the default.
Separately, DOB's complaint-intake system logged three new active complaints this week that have not yet produced matching enforcement records: an elevator complaint at 747 Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx, a boiler complaint at 1022 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, and a complaint at 462 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. These are unverified intake records only; DOB has not yet posted findings.