DOB Flexes Its Muscles at 716-718 6th Avenue
It looks like the DOB is starting to step up to the plate and hit scofflaw developers where it hurts. When DOB stopped by 716-718 6th Avenue, site of a former gas station and auto shop, yesterday and found that developer Salvatore Garzillo (who’d paid a combined $1,475,000 for the two properties in September of…
It looks like the DOB is starting to step up to the plate and hit scofflaw developers where it hurts. When DOB stopped by 716-718 6th Avenue, site of a former gas station and auto shop, yesterday and found that developer Salvatore Garzillo (who’d paid a combined $1,475,000 for the two properties in September of last year) had strayed from the plans he had filed, the agency went way beyond its typical financial slap on the wrist. Instead, it issued a Stop Work Order for the front of the site and ordered the demolition of the illegal construction at the rear of the property. (Garzillo is already a much-loved character in the neighborhood for the eyesore he built on the corner of 21st Street and 6th Avenue.) It’ll be interesting to see if this is the beginning of a new trend of enforcing the buildings code retroactively. It strikes us that this would be a powerful incentive to make developers conform to it in the first place.
716 6th Avenue: GMAP P*Shark DOB
718 6th Avenue: GMAP P*Shark DOB
let’s hope the DOB stays on top of this one. I live around the corner from this site and dont have enough fingers to count the illegalities involved with this development. i’m not convinced the DOB order will do much good unless they come by every day to police it.
can’t believe i just saw this post.
just was walking home up 23rd st and heard jackhammers and chisels. is this what the DoB asked them to do?
There’s also the issue of the new building NOT aligning with the adjacent properties like it supposed to under R6B.
Perhaps demo in the front as well?
Glad to see folks who break the law continue to be caught, fined and punished…especially when it is done in a proactive manner by the DOB.