The city issued 220 new violations in a sweep of more than 1,330 buildings with shoddy exteriors after the Dec. 17 falling-facade death of architect Erica Tishman, officials said Monday as they announced they were doubling the size of the city’s facade inspection team.
The department said in a statement that 11 new facade inspectors would join the current team of 11, and that property owners would be held to more stringent requirements to repair crumbling walls and install sidewalk sheds to protect passing pedestrians from falling debris.
“In the wake of this tragedy, we are doubling-down on the proven tools at our disposal,” Buildings Commissioner Melanie La Rocca said in a statement.
“New Yorkers should know that we are out in force holding owners’ feet to the fire, so they get repair work done as quickly as possible while still protecting the public,” she said.
Under the new initiative, the DOB said building owners who don’t repair unsafe facades will face “potential enforcement actions” and be subject to more frequent inspections.
Buildings with “class 1” infractions, the most severe, will be inspected within 60 days and again within 90 days to ensure the violation is being fixed and a sidewalk shed is installed.
If the owners fail to follow through on installing pedestrian protection, the city will hire contractors to do the work and bill the building owners, the department said.In addition, buildings officials said one in four buildings taller than six stories will be inspected at random to ensure their facades are up to standard and that sheds are in place where needed.
Buildings six stories or higher are required to undergo facade inspections every five years under a 1998 city law enacted after a college student was killed by falling debris in Manhattan.
Buildings officials said the new facade inspections were conducted in the 30 hours following Tishman’s Dec. 17 death. They did not specify whether the 220 properties cited were also hit with new fines.
The department’s announcement comes in the wake of a report by The Post that found thousands of buildings citywide had open violations for the same infraction as the 729 Seventh Ave. building where Tishman was struck and killed by a chunk of facade that fell from the high-rise.
The owners knew for more than a year that the facade was a danger to pedestrians, but a sidewalk shed to protect passersby was only installed after Tishman’s death.
The building was one of more than 5,300 structures in the five boroughs in violation of a city code that requires property owners to maintain their exterior walls and appurtenances, The Post report found.
Two buildings identified in the report as having among the longest-standing open violations were later hit with new citations and ordered to install sidewalk sheds.
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