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nyc.gov/dob. 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 ...
The Self Certification program has been cited by some as easy to abuse. A number of Architects have been investigated over the years by the Department of Buildings for self-certifying projects that did not actually conform to building codes and zoning regulations. In 2002, investigators with the New York City Department of Buildings alleged ...
The Department of Investigation (DOI) is a law enforcement agency that serves as an independent and nonpartisan watchdog for New York City government. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. The Law Department (Law) is responsible for most of the ...
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, started keeping a permanent online database of housing and maintenance code violations in November 2013. From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 ...
Outside of New York City, NYC's 311 service can be accessed by calling (212) NEW-YORK (212-639-9675) (dialing 3-1-1 outside of New York City may contact the local municipality's 311 service). There is also a website and a mobile app to access the 311 service. [12] Between 2003 and 2006 NYC311 received more than 30 million calls.
Two people were killed and 12 families displaced after a Maryland house exploded Sunday amid reports of a possible gas leak, fire officials said. Firefighters were called to the area around 6:40 a ...
The fees are steep, typically totaling as much as 15% of the annual rent, about $7,000 for the average-priced New York City apartment. NYC bans unusual practice of forcing tenants to pay real ...
Community Offshore Wind, a partnership between Essen, Germany-based RWE and New York-based National Grid, on Friday proposed a wind farm that would generate 2.8 gigawatts of electricity, or enough ...