TenantNet wrote:One Stop Work Order states:
Re: CALLER STATES THE RESTAURANT HAS CREATED AN ILLEGAL CHIMNEY WITHIN THE AIR SHAFT.THIS CONDITION IS A FIRE HAZARD, VIOLATIONS ISSUED PREVIOUSLY BUT CONDITION HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED
Last Inspection: 02/22/2010 - - BY BADGE # ____
Disposition: 02/25/2010 - A3 - FULL STOP WORK ORDER SERVED
Comments: REVOKED PERMIT #_________ NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH MULTI DWELLING LAW 213 - FAIL TO MAINTAIN EXHAUST AT ROOF - NOT SECURE
Are you aware of this?
I sure am. It would've been more useful had the SWO been issued BEFORE the ductwork was finished. This came 6 months after the restaurant opened for business. At the time Bryan Winter (I even spoke to him over the phone) was the DBC and he issued the second SWO on 9/24/2010 and sent a Commissioners Order To Remove.
THEN the restaurant's owner phoned me because he wanted to have a meeting between himself, his architect, and me. So I brought two of my building neighbors with me. And I brought with me the Commissioner's letter as well as all the information I'd accumulated up to that point. Those two guys, as they have done before, just sat there trying to convince us that the situation they created in our homes (noise, vibration, smells (in the top floors), and a serious fire hazard) was the best they could do. And won't the tenants be happy with that?
Of course we weren't satisfied with the lame efforts made on the part of the restaurant's people (owner, architect, workmen) to [fake] correct these problems. Because the documents and CDs acquired through FOIL requests had already proven they'd lied about several things.
We were aware early on after inviting the architect to one of our tenant meetings that he would maintain to DOB that the (vented skylight-coverered) shaft was not intended to provide air and light to apartments. And that's the road they went down.