Building Violations

In NYC, and especially in Manhattan, there are laws in all buildings that require all building owners to follow. This is also known as NYC building code, which affects all buildings in the five boroughs including Manhattan. Violation of such a code is against the law and can lead to dangerous situations, possibly injury to others or even death in emergency situations. 

For example, the lack of proper egress (which is derived from the Latin word “egressus” meaning to go) markings on every floor by elevator banks is a violation of the NYC building code. 

Other violations of the NYC building code includes lack of no smoking signs, lack of access to emergency exits due to stairwell emergency exits being blocked of by storage boxes, file cabinets, office furniture,...in case of a fire elevators do not work, unable to evacuate thru stairwells would trap tenants, guests, etc., no emergency stairwell egress signs or markings identifying which stairwell it is preventing first responders to where trapped people may be, standpipes in basement not painted in code color paint, elevators had no up or down light indicators, passengers would not be able to tell if elevator went up or down until on board elevator, 5 of the 18 floors examined had either full or partial blocked passage ways to stairwells and elevators by boxes, furniture, freight elevators had no markings distinguishing them form passenger elevators, passenger elevators had broken emergency phones and no permits posted with capacity and emergency directions, lit emergency exit signs placed above the wrong door, and even stairwells lacking florescent in the dark illumination tape. As seen, many of these building violations are here to make sure the building is safe because safety is the number one priority in every building.