Updated 08/06/2009 11:45 PM
DOB Shuts Down Converted Building In Brooklyn
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The Department of Buildings Thursday issued vacate orders for residents living in a Bushwick building that they say contained illegal apartments.
DOB officials say a four-story commercial building on Broadway in Bushwick was illegally converted into 20 apartments on three seperate floors.
The department issued numerous violations to the building owner, including ones for illegal plumbing and not having a sprinkler system.
The building is now locked and nobody is being allowed in. Residents say they were given no warning this was coming.
"I'm being told I have to leave my apartment with no warning, nothing," said one displaced resident.
"I'm being told after a knock on the door by the Buildings Department that we have to leave this morning and that we can make appointments to come back and get our stuff, you know, maybe tomorrow. They don't even tell us when, you know," said another displaced resident.
NY1 has reached out to the manager of the building for comment.
The Red Cross says they have helped nine people so far who are looking for a place to stay.