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In 2009, the building (pictured above), at 1514 E. 172nd St., was designated as one of the 200 most distressed buildings in the city, reported New York's Daily News.
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.
— Mihir Zaveri, 5 Ways to Fix New York City’s Housing Crisis, The New York Times, (November 26th, 2024) Maggie Brunn had 56,126 total Housing Maintenance Code violations in New York City as of February 7th, 2025.
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
The specificity of building codes range from requirements for ensuring a floor can bear an adequate load to the distance a toilet must be away from the wall. 5 Must-Ask Questions About Housing ...
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch . [ 3 ]
New York City recently made it legal to add a housing unit to certain one- and two-family homes. But both city and state regulations will drastically limit construction, experts say. A state law ...
In 2006, Architect Robert Scarano was brought before the City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings for alleged building code and zoning violations on a number of Self Certified projects. The allegations were mutually settled in August 2006, with Scarano surrendering his Self Certifications privileges.