Two more items hit the record this week, and one of them is less a single incident than a citywide pattern. Per DOB ECB Violations data, a second Class 1 violation was served August 28, 2026 against BSD 221 Wadsworth at 221 Wadsworth Avenue in Manhattan (10033), citing sloping floors in a bedroom and a slide bolt installed on a fire door inside apartment 6A — a violation of Section 28-301.1, failure to maintain a building in a code-compliant manner. DOB imposed a $2,500 penalty, unpaid, with a hearing set for November 5, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.

Separately, per DOB Safety Violations records, the department issued 46 active violations on August 31, 2026, every one of them coded 'FTC-AEU-HAZ,' device type 'AEUHAZ.' They landed on 44 different buildings in a single day. Manhattan took the largest share at 20 citations, Brooklyn had 14, the Bronx had 8, Queens had 3, and Staten Island had 1. Two buildings — 798 Third Avenue in Manhattan (BIN 1036446) and 240 West 132nd Street in Manhattan (BIN 1058725) — each drew two of the citations the same day.

The addresses span the city: 388 Broadway in Tribeca, 1181 Sixth Avenue in Midtown, 26 West 67th Street on the Upper West Side, 569 Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, 210 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights, and 1201 Ogden Avenue in Highbridge, the Bronx, are among the 44 BINs cited.

The DOB Safety Violations dataset doesn't carry a plain-language description field for this batch, so what specifically triggered 'FTC-AEU-HAZ' at each address isn't in the record available to us. Whether this was one coordinated inspection push or 44 separate findings that happened to land the same day, the dataset doesn't say.

Why it matters: if a building you own, manage, or are bidding work into is on this list, it's carrying an active DOB violation right now — the kind that can hold up a permit, a refinance, or a sale until it's cleared. What to do next: pull your BIN against the DOB Safety Violations dataset (855j-jady) or DOB NOW, confirm the citation, and get ahead of it before it escalates to an ECB summons with a penalty attached — the way the McDonald Avenue and Wadsworth Avenue violations already have. Source: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/DOB-Safety-Violations/855j-jady and https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DOB-ECB-Violations/6bgk-3dad.