In November, 2004, the Trump Palace on East 69th Street received a visit from NYC’s Department of Environmental Protection and ended up with a violation for “Unregistered Fuel Burning Equipment.” The building agreed to the violation in exchange for the right to pay a reduced fine- something called a “stipulation”. Though they paid that fine, it appears that they did not pay everything off in time, leading to a $105 additional fee. Fast forward 11 years, and that fee is still unpaid according to city records from the Open Data Portal.

In fact, those records, along with the City’s ECB violation website, show that Trump’s various luxury properties in Manhattan owe the City $27,536.56 in unpaid fines for 19 violations over the last 12 years. (Payment is generally due 10 days after a hearing).

A full accounting of those violations with balances still due are below. (Higher res version here.)

The most common unpaid violation is for the “Failure to Submit an Annual Test Report for a Backflow Preventer”. A Backflow Preventer prevents contaminated water or chemicals from flowing back into the drinking water supply if there is a sudden or unexpected change in water pressure. Failure to send in a test report does not sound so bad, though the unpaid “Failed to Install a Backflow Preventer” at Trump Parc in 2008 is a bit more unnerving. Even so, Trump Parc still owes $700 on that ticket more than seven years later.

While Trump properties have yet to pay the outstanding balances above, the same data shows they have paid for plenty of other violations. In fact, his Manhattan properties have been cited for violations with listed fines totaling $304,165, on 460 separate violations since the year 2000. This total only includes those violations which were not dismissed, which listed the word “Trump” somewhere as a recipient, and which happened at one of his properties. The 460 violations happened at 14 separate Trump properties:

It seems like compliance is not getting any better overall. It turns out that 2015 had the highest sum of violations yet:

What were the violations for? The most common violation was the “Failure to Maintain an Elevator,” which Trump’s buildings were fined for 62 separate times. The next four most common issues were all from the FDNY for issues with fire systems, documents, signs or instructions. There were also four additional elevator issues which were considered “hazardous”.

A closer look at the elevator issues over the years reveals that the two biggest violating buildings were the two that Trump sold shortly after getting those violations - the GM Building and the Empire State Building. (Note that the violations here are only ones accrued during Trump’s Ownership).

All in, most of the violation money went to 175 FDNY violations but eleven asbestos control issues came up as well.

A more thorough look at the asbestos violations show they all happened at Trump Parc at 502 Park Avenue on two distinct dates. Seems like they may not have learned the first time around.

Though Trump properties offered defenses in most cases, only 6% of the all of the violations were dismissed:

So if you catch Trump at a rally anytime soon in NYC, tell him the properties he owns or manages owe the people of New York a bit of money. You can also mention that the White House has three elevators in it. Given his record, he may just not want to take that on.

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ECB Violation Data found here on NYC Open Data portal.

Some outstanding amounts were updated using ECB Ticket Payment Tool since ECB data did not include interest amount.

