Buildings with open DOB violations and nobody filing to fix them.

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A sample with fictional parties. Your list has the same pages, for buildings in your boroughs.

3 buildings in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx with open DOB violations and no filing to fix them

SamplePrepared for your firm, October 2, 2026

Each has Construction or Zoning violations open at the city, and nobody has an open DOB filing on any of them. 2 of 3 have an OATH hearing scheduled, the first on October 14, 2026.

Lead	Building	Next hearing	Open	Penalties imposed	Owner of record
1	418 Halden Street, Brooklyn6 residential units, Walk-up	October 21, 2026	3	$2,500	Wick & Colt Property Group LLClatest deed June 30, 2026
2	22 Sorrel Lane, Queens3 residential units, Walk-up	October 14, 2026	2		Sorrel Lane Holdings LLClatest deed February 2, 2019
3	905 Fen Street, Bronx24 residential units, Elevator building		4	$7,500	Fen Street Bronx Associates LPlatest deed November 9, 2017

Each building gets its own page. Your own work follows the buildings, and none of it is a lead.

418 Halden Street

SampleLead 1 of 3Brooklyn 112216 residential unitsWalk-up

Open at the city: 3 Construction or Zoning violations, read October 2, 2026

Cited for work without a permit and failure to maintain the building.

$2,500 in penalties imposed on these violations, all of it by default.

Why now

OATH hearing on October 21, 2026 for 2 of these violations.
Sold June 12, 2026 for $1,450,000.

Owner of record

Wick & Colt Property Group LLCThe buyer on the latest deed, recorded June 30, 2026.

Also at this address

DOB complaints in the last year: 2, the newest August 4, 2026.

Each violation, as the city has it

Violation	Issued	What the city cited	Penalty imposed	Hearing
39018842K	August 24, 2026	Work without a permit“Work without a permit at cellar: new partitions and plumbing installed.”		October 21, 2026, hearing pending
39018843M	August 24, 2026	Work without a permit“Work without a permit at 1st floor rear: bearing wall removed.”		October 21, 2026, hearing pending
35670211R	March 3, 2026	Failure to maintain the building“Failure to maintain exterior wall: loose brick at parapet.”	$2,500	May 14, 2026, decided by default

Public record

Leads 2 and 3 follow in the same shape.

Your firm’s own work

SampleThe last pages of every list

Your list ends with your firm’s own work as the city has it, so you can check us against jobs you know. None of it is a lead, and the owners are not named.

Building	Work	Date
77 Wren Street, Brooklyn	Alteration job filed, then signed off	March 12, 2025
1402 Kell Avenue, Queens	Represented the owner at an OATH hearing	June 3, 2026
9 Larch Court, Queens	Work permit issued	August 19, 2026

What every list checks, and what it does not.

The last page of every list says this, so you know what you are holding.

Checked

Every violation cited is open in the city’s own record, read the day the list is made. Each one links to it.
The address is the building’s own address in the city’s records, not the owner’s mailing address.
Nobody has an open DOB job filing on the lot.
No architect or engineer has an unfinished DOB job on the lot.
The owner of record is the buyer on the latest deed in the city’s deed records (ACRIS).
The city’s text on these violations names no construction superintendent and no permitted job.

Not checked

Whether the owner reads mail.
Whether someone is already helping the owner without filing anything with the city.
Whether any penalty has been paid. The amounts are what OATH imposed.

How every claim is graded

Michael Espin

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