A developer of an Upper East side luxury condo tower has received a stop work order from the City. Apparently, the developer of the building on 88th street near 3rd avenue got approval to create a 4 foot lot in the rear and then used the separate lot as a way to circumvent local zoning which would have allowed a smaller building than what they were about to construct according to NYT. Local opposition including politicians demanded that the Mayor’s office investigate. They did and now the developer has a stop work order. Listings were already live on streeteasy in this tower which will now need to be redesigned to comply with zoning.

180 East 88th street was supposed to rise to 50 stories with 48 units. At this point, there are still listings live on Streeteasy ranging from $3.2 million to $15mm.