110 West 72nd Street Racks Up 32 Open HPD Hazard Violations

The Gallery Condominium, the 10-story building at 110 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side, has 39 open Class C violations on file with the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and 32 of them trace to a single inspection order issued October 28, according to HPD’s violations dataset on NYC Open Data. Every one of the 32 cites the same defect: apartment entrance doors with missing or broken self-closing hinges, a code requirement meant to stop fire and smoke from spreading between units.

Why it matters

Class C is HPD’s most serious violation tier, reserved for conditions the agency deems immediately hazardous. A self-closing door failure does not sound dramatic next to no heat or exposed wiring, but the fire code treats it the same way: a propped-open or non-closing unit door erases the minutes a closed door buys firefighters and neighbors during a fire. Getting 32 of them in one building on one inspection date points to either a building-wide hardware failure or a compliance sweep that found the same gap unit after unit. HPD’s registration records list AKAM Associates as the building’s managing agent and the Gallery Condominium itself as the registered corporate owner, both at 99 Park Avenue. Neither has filed a public response to the October inspection.

The numbers

HPD’s open violations file shows 39 total Class C violations at the address, with the oldest unresolved one dating to 2009 and involving scalding hot water in a unit bathroom. The 32 self-closing-door violations from the October 28 inspection were logged under a single HPD order number, meaning inspectors moved through the building apartment by apartment rather than citing one isolated unit. None of the 32 had an HPD certification of correction on file as of this writing, which keeps them classified as open.

What’s next

HPD violations stay open until the registered owner or managing agent files a certification that the condition was fixed, which the city then verifies. The American Developer will track whether AKAM Associates and the Gallery Condominium board clear the October batch and whether the city’s older, unresolved Class C violations at the address get addressed in the same pass. More on building conditions and compliance is at the New York market hub.