New York Daily News – Upper West Side hotel that illegally posted rooms on Airbnb gets hit with dozens of safety violations

March 29, 2016
Owners of an Upper West Side hotel who lost a long legal battle to rent to tourists instead of the poor were hit with more than four dozen building and fire code violations Monday by the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement in a crackdown aimed at protecting affordable housing. Christian Klossner, executive director of MOSE, said the move was just the beginning of a crackdown on illegal hotels that create quality of life issues and safety risks for their temporary and permanent tenants…
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/illegal-airbnb-hotel-hit-dozens-violations-article-1.2581829