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By Bruno Caligara With summer fast approaching, many property owners will receive requests from tenants about the possibility of using a BBQ. The answer is, maybe. The Fire Code and the NYC Fuel Gas Code outlines what is permitted and ...
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By Mario Aurioso The DOB has announced a new initiative to inspect all gas plumbing jobs prior to allowing service to be turned on. The program will kick in over the summer, and will be performed by 22 newly-hired plumbing ...
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By Penny Laughlin For the last 20 years, the DOB has had a Professional Self Certification Program. The logic was straightforward – Registered professionals had the training and experience, as well as integrity to stand by their own work. With ...
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By Brian Redlein On March 23rd every New Yorker woke up in a City slightly different than the one they went to sleep in the night before. On March 22nd City Council passed two very major changes to the Zoning ...
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By Wayne Sheppard Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Mayor de Blasio announced that New York City has committed to installing over 15 miles of physically protected bicycle lanes in 2016, the most of any year on record. The projects include ...
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By Bruno Caligara In New York City, air-borne noise is always an issue. In many cases, exterior mechanical units are installed without first checking the proper permitted decibel ratings. These issues mostly arise in residential areas where the nuisance of noisy air ...
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By Mario Aurioso On March 21, 2016, the LAA Division posted a new service memo regarding an Intent to Revoke or Revoke Banner. These will now be visible in BIS on a Limited Alteration Application with the scope of work is ...
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By Renee Sosnowski The DOB is proposing to add two new violation classifications, and to amend another. The new classifications will enable the DOB to ensure public safety and more effectively enforce the laws, rules and Commissioner’s orders related to ...
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By Penny Laughlin City College of New York is hosting a series of trainings for Filing Representatives over the next several months. There are two types of Filing Reps, and thus two different trainings. The training for a Class 1 ...
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By Brian Lafferty Starting in March 2016, the DOB began issuing DOB violations for energy code infractions. Violations for energy code infractions are Class 2 (major) violations, and carry a penalty unless dismissed by the ECB. In order to request ...
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By Brian Redlein On March 9th, in a very gray room in Albany, the New York State Code Council voted to enact an update to the State’s Energy Code. The upside is we have until late September, not June as ...
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By Austin Regan It’s all about how a clock ticks. The new owners of 346 Broadway wished to convert the rooms that housed the mechanical equipment that ran a historic clock into a Penthouse apartment. The building, formerly owned by ...
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