The Department of Buildings issued more than 50 active safety violations on October 14 for hazardous automated external unit conditions, with the citations landing in all five boroughs on the same day, per DOB Safety Violations records.
Every citation in the batch carries the same violation type, FTC-AEU-HAZ, tied to device type AEUHAZ, and every one is listed as active status with no resolution recorded as of this writing, according to DOB records.
Manhattan carried the heaviest share of the addresses cited, including 2296 2nd Avenue in East Harlem, 120 Christopher Street in the West Village, 517 West 42nd Street and 605 West 42nd Street in Hell's Kitchen, 323 East 58th Street in Turtle Bay, 153 Sullivan Street in SoHo, and 470 Broome Street, also in SoHo, per DOB records.
Brooklyn addresses cited include 123 Lenox Road in East Flatbush, 245 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, 1921 Cortelyou Road and 1086 Myrtle Avenue and 1070 Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, 182 Eagle Street in Greenpoint, 374 Wallabout Street in South Williamsburg, 22 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, 1998 Atlantic Avenue in Ocean Hill, 479 Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville, 628 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens, and 122 7th Avenue in Park Slope, according to DOB records.
Queens addresses cited include 94-04 115th Street in South Richmond Hill, 34-24 Vernon Boulevard in Queensbridge, 205-29 Hollis Avenue in Hollis, 105-34 65th Avenue in Forest Hills, 153-33 Hillside Avenue and 143-20 84th Road in Jamaica, per DOB records. The Hollis Avenue address received two separate citations under the same sweep, DOB records show.
The Bronx addresses cited include 1255 Stratford Avenue in Soundview, 361 East 161st Street in Morrisania, 1939 Grand Concourse in Mount Hope, 1250 Grand Concourse in Concourse, 1350 Shakespeare Avenue in Highbridge, 2324 Morris Avenue in Fordham Heights, 940 Bryant Avenue in Hunts Point, and 101 Lincoln Avenue in Mott Haven, according to DOB records. Staten Island's single cited address was 457 Victory Boulevard in West New Brighton.
DOB's violation data does not describe what triggered the sweep or whether any unit has since been repaired or removed, and the records reviewed show no associated injury report or stop-work order tied to any of the addresses listed.
Separately, DOB logged roughly 100 new complaints citywide over the same two-day window, per DOB Complaints Received records, spanning boiler, plumbing, electrical and elevator categories — volume consistent with a routine reporting period and not confirmation of any violation beyond what is listed above.