Matter of Benlevi v. New York City Dept. of Bldgs.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo Hagler, J.), entered June 28, 2016, which denied the petition to annul the determination of respondent New York City Department of Buildings (DOB), dated January 26, 2016, and dismissed the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, on the grounds that petitioner’s revised penalty of the suspension of his filing privileges for three years and seven months was not excessive, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Given the circumstances of this case, that petitioner falsely represented that he was licensed to practice architecture when, during…