Hotel claims city audit mothballed 18 rooms for a year

The five-story building at 765 8th Avenue has been a hotel since the 1920s. But now its operator, City Rooms, says the city’s Department of Buildings forced the Hell’s Kitchen property to slog through red tape to prove it can, in fact, be used as a hotel. The year-long probe sliced into its profits. City Rooms, in a lawsuit filed this week, is demanding that the agency — which eventually dropped its fight — cough

source https://therealdeal.com/2020/01/31/hotel-claims-city-audit-mothballed-18-rooms-for-a-year/