The Department of Buildings logged a wave of enforcement activity this week, and most of it traces back to paperwork, not accidents — but one Bronx case involves an occupied basement DOB says was never legal to live in.

At 306 East Mosholu Parkway South in the Bronx, DOB issued a Class 2 ECB violation on September 24 against respondent Anthony Nacerino, citing "occupancy contrary to the certificate of occupancy." Per the violation record, the basement was "created and occupied as [a] Class A apartment with [a] 3 pc bathroom, kitche[n]" — space DOB's records don't allow to be lived in. The record notes this follows a prior request for corrective action DOB issued back on May 19, 2026, meaning the condition was flagged months ago and, per this new violation, was not resolved. A hearing is scheduled for December 4 at 9:30 a.m.; DOB has imposed a $1,250 penalty, unpaid as of this writing, and the case is listed as pending.

Separately, DOB's citywide device-violation feed shows a heavy run of Local Law 84 benchmarking violations issued September 25 — more than 30 in this batch alone, hitting buildings from Wall Street in Manhattan to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, Elmhurst in Queens, and Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. Local Law 84 requires owners of covered buildings to file an annual report of a building's energy and water use; these violations cite "failure to file benchmarking report of energy use as per Ad. Code Sec. 28-309.4." Addresses cited include 1 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, 3540 Broadway in Hamilton Heights, 140 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District, and 67 Wall Street in the Financial District, among others — the filing deadline these violations reference has come and gone, and DOB's records list all as active.

Also in Wednesday's batch: two "FTC-AEU-HAZ" violations — DOB's code for asbestos exemption/hazard-related filings — at 215 East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx's Norwood section and 3435 Olinville Avenue in Williamsbridge-Olinville, plus a third at 802 Dean Street in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. DOB's public data does not include narrative detail on these beyond the device-type code; the violations are listed active as of September 25.

None of this week's citywide complaint volume — DOB logged roughly 100 new complaints across the five boroughs in the past two days, spanning categories from illegal conversion to elevator and plumbing issues — has produced a matching violation or enforcement record yet. A complaint entering DOB's system is not a finding; per DOB's own data structure, most complaints take days to result in an inspection disposition, and several in this window are already marked closed with no violation attached.