A hotel owner can sue the de Blasio administration over its enforcement of the state's Airbnb Law, a Manhattan federal judge ruled today. Hank Fried of Helms Realty alleged in a 2017 lawsuit that the city improperly slapped his Broadway Hotel and Hostel at 230 W. 101st St. with repeated violations for renting out rooms using home-sharing sites such as Airbnb. The city tried to get the case dismissed, but Judge Alvin Hellerstein's ruling today means that it can move forward. "The court upheld the validity of the advertising ban, and found illegal short term rental advertisements are not constitutionally protected speech," a spokesman for the City Law Department said in a statement. "The city will continue to defend the remaining claims." Hellerstein threw out portions of the case that would have had wide implications, however. For example, Fried had argued that a 2016 state statute known as the Airbnb Law was unconstitutional because it was too vague.