The Department of Buildings

Engineers say 552-556 Academy Street will need approximately $20 million in repairs before it can be made safe again.

Smart phone users can now scan codes printed on building permits to learn more about projects and complaints.

Inwood politicians want the city to spend $20 million to repair an unstable residential building evacuated on Friday.

Residents of 552-556 Academy St. had to leave their homes Friday afternoon due to reported unsafe conditions.

The city is renting rooms for homeless men in buildings with serious safety violations.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal will introduce legislation to stop the city from moving homeless into "illegal hotels."

Mayor Bloomberg's elevator in his East 79th Street townhouse reportedly rated "unsatisfactory" five times in last 10 years.

An illegal 30-foot antenna built atop an East 11th Street building is blocking neighbors' views.

The owners of a building which once housed former slaves escaping to freedom are fighting a city order.

Tenants from 101 Stanton St. are suing their landlord to have an independent party make repairs to their building.

The opening can't come soon enough for Johnson Houses, which is suffering through a youth-gang rivalry, officials say.

An illegal fifth floor on a row house, once a part of the Underground Railroad, is still standing, days after a DOB deadline.

Vibrations from construction and the subway have compromised the unrenovated row house.

The short-term apartment rental company Hotel Toshi recently took over a dozen units on East 10th Street.

The city has ordered the developer at a Chelsea stop on the Underground Railroad to take down illegal construction.