Stop Work Order Enforcement Comes to Brooklyn
This past Monday, the Department of Buildings and the Department of Finance expanded the Stop Work Order Patrol initiative to that started as a pilot program in Queens at the beginning of the year to Brooklyn. Each Stop Work Order Patrol team includes a DOB inspector and two NYC sheriffs. Their job? To “proactively monitor…
This past Monday, the Department of Buildings and the Department of Finance expanded the Stop Work Order Patrol initiative to that started as a pilot program in Queens at the beginning of the year to Brooklyn. Each Stop Work Order Patrol team includes a DOB inspector and two NYC sheriffs. Their job? To “proactively monitor and inspect sites” where Stop Work Orders have been issued. No word on how many teams Brooklyn is going to have at the start. Does anyone know how effective the program has been in Queens? Speaking of the DOB, the agency just announced the launch of a new document management system that will enable online storage and retrieval of all paper docs associated with the construction permit process.
DOB to Travel with NYC Sheriffs [Queens Ledger]
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I called 311 inquiring about this and they had no clue what I was talking about.
311 is probably the place to start. I saw a reno go on for 6 months after a stop work order on 6th Ave in the slope. Flippers may have caught on to the fact that a complaint shows up on BIS before the inspector goes out, so all the flipper has to do is lay low until the inspector comes out and sees no work, then start up again until the next complaint is made. DOB has no record of what was done vs. not done at the time of the SWO so the inspector has no way of knowing what work was done afterwards unless the inspector actually catches someone working at teh time of the inspection.
How do you reach them. Do you call 311?