required repair because she is not a contractor; that she was surprised when she saw
violations from 2018; that Respondents never deferred maintenance for lack of money;
and that she never oversaw repairs to the facade of the subject premises.
The Property Manager testified on redirect examination that Respondents hired an
engineer when they got a violation in 2018.
The Court granted Respondents' application to qualify Respondents' engineer as an
expert witness. Respondents' engineer testified that he is a licensed professional
engineer; that he specializes in structural mechanical engineering for residential
properties in New York; that he has performed multiple inspections of the subject
premises; that Respondents retained him in the spring of 2018; that the scope of his
retention was to inspect and prepare plans for repair work; that the subject premises has
significant structural issues; that the floor framing throughout is severely deteriorated and
deflected; that floor framing entails work on plumbing, sprinkler systems, mechanical
and electric systems, and the structural perimeter; that he filed the PW1 Application in
July of 2018 with DOB to effectuate repairs for an "Alt-2" repair, meaning an alteration
that does not require a C of O; that the PW1 Application provided for floor replacement,
interior wall reconstruction, plumbing work, mechanical work, and sprinkler work; that
DOB did not approve application (referencing DOB's Objections); that he resolved a
number of objections; that a resolution of objections took a number of months because
he was only able to get short appointments with DOB examiners at times that are far
apart from one another; and that one objection said that a CONH is needed, which he
does not deal with.