Talk about your all-time bureaucratic blunders – the city’s Department of Buildings reportedly approved a Williamsburg residential development based on plans for a completely different address, leading to the construction of an unsafe building that residents were forced to vacate last month.

The DOB issued an emergency vacate order for the luxury rental building at 120 South 4th Street in Williamsburg – formerly owned by murdered landlord Menachem Stark — in November after a general contractor who signed a lease for a retail space on the ground floor noticed structural flaws at the property. (more…)

Source: DOB’s epic bureaucratic blunder led to discovery that Menachem Stark’s former building is “dangerous”