DOB's elevator unit posted 43 new safety violations on October 2, and every single one is the same charge: failure to file a required 2025 inspection report.
Twenty-six are failure-to-file citations for the 2025 Category 1 test report — the periodic load test every elevator needs on a set cycle. Seventeen more are failure-to-file citations for the 2025 periodic inspection report, the annual visual and operational check. One of the seventeen, at 78 Monument Walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn (BIN 3335229, device 3P3447), was issued and then marked Dismissed the same day, per DOB records. Every other violation in the batch carries Active status as of this writing.
The addresses span four boroughs and read like a cross-section of the city's elevator stock, old and new. In Manhattan: 1 Centre Street (BIN 1001394, Manhattan Municipal Building), 550 West 33rd Street in Hudson Yards (BIN 1091590), 240 West 71st Street on the Upper West Side (BIN 1030398), and a dozen more between Tribeca and East Harlem. In Brooklyn: 623 Atlantic Avenue and 483 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, 82 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights, 1569 47th Street in Borough Park. In Queens: 5-12 47th Avenue in Long Island City, 74-11 Hillmeyer Avenue in Rockaway Beach, 166-09 Hendrickson Place in South Jamaica. The Bronx shows one entry, at 974 Sheridan Avenue in Concourse.
Per DOB records, every cycle end date in this batch is December 31, 2025 — meaning these are buildings that missed last year's filing deadline and are only now getting cited for it, consistent with DOB's typical lag in processing and issuing failure-to-file violations after a compliance cycle closes.
Separately, DOB's complaints system logged roughly 100 new complaints citywide over the same two days, including several elevator-coded complaints (unit ELEVR) at addresses in East Flatbush, Mott Haven, and Williamsburg. A complaint is an unverified report, not a finding, and none of them are confirmed to connect to the violations above.
For owners and managing agents: a failure-to-file violation is a paperwork problem, not (yet) a safety finding against the equipment — but DOB treats repeated failure-to-file as grounds for escalating enforcement, and an uncorrected FTF violation typically converts to a more serious citation with civil penalties attached. Building management at any of the addresses above should confirm with their elevator maintenance contractor that the 2025 Cat1 or periodic report was actually submitted, not just performed — filing paperwork late or incorrectly is the single most common cause of this exact violation type. The device number listed in each record (per DOB's Safety Violations dataset) is the fastest way to confirm status: pull it on DOB NOW and check whether the report shows as received.
None of the violations in this batch indicate an injury, a shutdown, or a finding of unsafe equipment — only a missing report. Owners can clear it by filing the outstanding inspection or test report; if the equipment failed inspection rather than simply going unreported, that would carry its own separate violation.