The Department of Buildings issued a wave of elevator-related safety violations dated October 29, 2026, to building owners across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, according to DOB Safety Violations records. The violations are not for new elevator defects — they are for failing to file the paperwork confirming that prior defects were fixed.

Most of the violations fall into two categories, per DOB records: failure to file a 2025 Category 1 Test Affirmation of Correction, and failure to file a 2025 Periodic Inspection Affirmation of Correction. Both filings are standard annual steps in DOB's elevator safety program — a building's elevator contractor inspects or load-tests the device, and the owner is required to file an affirmation with the city certifying any violations found were corrected. Missing that filing, not necessarily an unfixed elevator, is what triggers these violations.

Addresses cited include 1631 Broadway in Manhattan (BIN 1024812), 11 Union Square West (BIN 1016065), 2 East 90th Street (BIN 1046979, cited twice for two separate devices), 200 Park Avenue (BIN 1085735), 9 West 57th Street (BIN 1035071), and 22 Reade Street in Tribeca (BIN 1078613), all per DOB records. Brooklyn addresses include 192 Varet Street in East Williamsburg, 115 Myrtle Avenue and 408 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, and 4308 4th Avenue in Sunset Park. Queens addresses include 10-20 37th Avenue in Long Island City, 91-30 Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill, and 110-31 Merrick Boulevard in St. Albans. The Bronx list includes 1334 Louis Nine Boulevard, 2016 Davidson Avenue and 1415 Bryant Avenue. One violation, for device 4P5946, was issued at 9-09 Hazen Street — the Rikers Island jail complex — and another at 555 Page Avenue in Tottenville, Staten Island.

One violation in the batch, at 360 Williams Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn (BIN 3328048), is listed with status "Pending Dismissal" rather than "Active," per DOB records — meaning the agency's own system already shows that one working its way toward being cleared. All the others carry a status of "Active."

Separately, DOB's complaints database logged roughly 100 new complaints citywide over the past two days, including several elevator-related complaints (category 6S, routed to DOB's Elevator unit) at addresses in the Bronx, including 3764 and 3640 Bronx Boulevard and 2134 Wallace Avenue, and at 655 West 160th Street in Manhattan. A complaint is an unverified allegation, not a finding, and none of those addresses appear in the affirmation-of-correction violations above.

Every property on this list carries an open violation until the paperwork is filed. For a managing agent or elevator maintenance contractor, that's a fine clock running, not a safety emergency by itself — but DOB's active violation count on a building is exactly the kind of thing that shows up in due diligence searches, co-op board questions, and sale closings.