By Brian Lafferty Sometimes, FDNY Violations feel like parking tickets. Try as you might, they just happen. The good news is that it’s relatively straightforward to avoid the FDNY’s ‘low hanging fruit’ – the most obvious violations. 1. Keep all approved plans and documents on site. Make sure the site manager… View more
By Renee Sosnowski Last summer, the Mayor signed Local Law 47 of 2013, which required contractors and building owners to consolidate construction signage and permits into a single new standard format. The goal here was two-fold — to provide information that was more useful to the public and minimize the visual… View more
By Renee Sosnowski Last week, the Rules of the City of New York were updated with help from the DOB. Specifically, the new Rule targeted civil penalties for work without a permit, and stop work order violations. We all know that a written permit is required to conduct work in the… View more
By Renee Sosnowski The Department’s Buildings Information System (BIS) is updated quarterly to reflect resolved private elevator violations (PVT Violations). When a PVT violation is received, the property owner has to hire a private elevator company to correct the device’s deficiencies and then choose one of the of 4 options listed… View more