During Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, a curious feature of the lobby in Trump Tower in Manhattan became a sideline distraction: Kiosks selling merchandise occupied the open public space where seating should have been.

After $14,000 in fines and at least a year of back-and-forths, the benches were reinstalled.

But the building continues to violate the terms of its decades-old agreement, according to a new audit completed by the office of the New York City comptroller, Scott M. Stringer. Auditors found that it lacked many of the tables it is required to provide the public, part of an agreement that had allowed Mr. Trump to build his tower 20 stories higher than originally allowed.

The building was one of more than 180 properties where public spaces did not comply with the city’s rules — more than half of all locations with privately owned public spaces in New York, according to the audit.

Image Scott M. Stringer, the New York City comptroller, whose office completed the audit. Credit... Kevin Hagen/Getty Images

Privately owned public spaces, commonly known as POPS, are areas that developers have agreed to provide the public in exchange for leniency on certain zoning requirements. They have been a quirk of the New York landscape since the 1960s, when they were pioneered before spreading to other cities around the world.