The Department of Buildings issued 5,948 stop-work orders citywide in the year’s first half, 44.8 percent more than last year. There are 67.2 percent more stop-work orders in Queens, 65.6 percent more in Brooklyn and 25.7 percent more in Manhattan. The number of stop-work orders in the Bronx, however, fell by 45 percent.
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