The Department of Buildings logged 100 new complaints citywide in the two-day window ending September 12, per DOB Complaints Received records — the routine intake that precedes any inspection, violation, or enforcement action.
Elevator-related complaints (categories 6M and 6S, handled by DOB's Elevator unit) accounted for a handful of entries, including one at 1381 East New York Avenue in Brooklyn (BIN 3319475), one at 132-45 Maple Avenue in Queens (BIN 4535286), one at 77 Sullivan Place in Brooklyn (BIN 3388697), one at 1806 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn (BIN 3181125), and one at 5 Blue Slip in Brooklyn (BIN 3418261). An elevator complaint is a request for inspection, not a finding — DOB has not yet disposed of any of these as of this writing.
Illegal-conversion and work-without-permit categories (05, 45) also showed up across the boroughs, including 61-25 62 Street in Queens (BIN 4061828), 179-03 Union Turnpike in Queens (BIN 4154722), 38-27 147 Street in Queens (BIN 4113873), 561 Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn (BIN 3054632), and 1219 East 93 Street in Brooklyn (BIN 3229992). These remain active and unresolved in DOB's system.
Two complaints in the batch already closed same-day: one at 500 West 218 Street in Manhattan (BIN 1091932, category 8A, disposition code A8) and one at 4324 Avenue D in Brooklyn (BIN 3430194, category 8A, disposition code V3). DOB's disposition codes indicate the department's own inspectors closed these out after review — the codes themselves are public record but do not by themselves describe what, if anything, an inspector found.
None of the day's complaint volume corresponds to a confirmed injury, collapse, or stop-work order in DOB's incident feeds, and no new enforcement action posted in this cycle. A complaint entering DOB's system is the start of a paper trail, not a finding of fault or hazard — contractors and building owners at any of these addresses should expect a possible inspection, not assume one has already happened.