New York Daily News – Illegal hotel on Upper West Side of Manhattan first to be fined under new law

April 3, 2017
The city has slapped an Upper West Side landlord with the first $5,000 fines under a new law passed to crack down on illegal hotels. Hank Fried was whacked with a dozen fines totaling $60,000 for advertising rooms in the Marrakech Hotel on Broadway near 103rd St., which the city says is operating illegally in what is supposed to be a single-room-occupancy and apartment building…
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