SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Thursday said the City of Syracuse is taking the owner and lender of Nob Hill Apartments to New York State Supreme Court to force compliance with code violations. The violations are for elevators that work “intermittently, inoperable boilers, inadequate heat” and other basic maintenance and repair issues, […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Thursday said the City of Syracuse is taking the owner and lender of Nob Hill Apartments to New York State Supreme Court to force compliance with code violations.
The violations are for elevators that work “intermittently, inoperable boilers, inadequate heat” and other basic maintenance and repair issues, per the City’s announcement. As of the filing date, more than $340,000 in statutory fines have accrued as a result of Nob Hill Apartment Group LLC’s “failure to correct ongoing code violations.”
New York State Supreme Court Judge Robert Antonacci has set a court date of June 4.
CNYBJ contacted Nob Hill Apartments’ owner via email for comment or reaction, but the entity didn’t immediately respond to the inquiry.
Background
The City of Syracuse lawsuit says Nob Hill Apartments has been “the subject of excessive complaints concerning their lack of maintenance over the past year.” It says city inspectors “have visited them on countless occasions to assess their state and cite code violations.”
The out-of-state owner of the property has expended “unsatisfactory effort” toward resolving violations at the four-building complex at the top of East Seneca Turnpike, the city said.
“Nob Hill’s owner has shown disregard for the City and, worse yet, for its own residents. Despite the Division of Code Enforcement’s repeated efforts to hold this company and its property manager accountable, the problems have continued to go unaddressed. Most recently, residents in one building have been living without hot water,” Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said in the announcement. “This kind of careless property management and treatment of city residents will not be tolerated.”
The city’s announcement went on to say that, according to the action, the functionality of elevators at the complex has been found to be “inconsistent at best and nonexistent at worst.” It also says the properties are in a “general state of disrepair” and cites more than two dozen violations, covering elevator maintenance, general repairs and health and safety risks.
The suit asks the court to compel Nob Hill to correct the violations within 30 days of an order and seeks a judgment of $100 per day for each day the violations have gone unaddressed.
