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The DOB recently imposed an emergency vacate order after conducting a court-ordered inspection of a building on the Lower East Side. The DOB required the property owner to replace an unstable staircase within two weeks. This sudden evacuation, which displaced nearly 100 people, including 17 children, followed a month after the DHCR determined that apartments in the building are legally rent stabilized and tenants could stay.
