A Queens homeowner illegally turned his house into an Airbnb-style hotel with numbered units and even a soda machine – but refused to pay $420,000 in fines when he was caught, a new lawsuit claims.
Gurcharan Kaur has yet to fork over the cash from seven separate $60,000 fines issued in fall 2022, when he was accused of converting his Kew Gardens home into a getaway with daily bookings, the suit alleges.
Kaur was found in violation by an administrative court, but yet to pay a dime of the nearly half-a-million dollars in fines — and the time to challenge the violations has passed, the city said.
Kaur’s son denied the violations at a 2023 administrative hearing, but “offered no rebuttal evidence or testimony to the violating conditions established by the DOB,” the suit claims…