Demolition is underway on the site of a new hotel planned for Third Avenue between Douglass and Butler Streets. As reported by Brownstoner a couple of weeks ago, the hotel will be a Fairfield Inn. DOB records show that it will be a nine-story building with 134 rooms. The interesting thing is that when we stopped to take photos, we were accosted by a worker who demanded to know what were photographing and why. At first, we thought it might have been that they were doing weekend work without a permit, but when we checked the Department of Buildings record we found another issue: at least one of the addresses that is part of the project was hit with a Stop Work Order on April 21 for unsafe conditions and mechanical demolition without a permit. We could be wrong, but it’s very possible that we were seeing work going on in violation of a Stop Work Order, which might have explained why the worker was so testy when he saw us photographing the building and the permits (because we simply thought it was interesting that demolition was already underway for the project).