Lander: Turkish House and hundreds of NYC office buildings lack fire plans

January 10, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Mayor Eric Adams, right, is greeted as he visits the Turkish Consulate General building, background, after it was vandalized in New York, May 22, 2023. Others are unidentified. Photo: Michael Appleton/Office of the New York Mayor via AP

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CITYWIDE — AN INVESTIGATION BY NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander revealed that Turkish House in Manhattan (aka Turkevi Center, headquarters of the Turkish Consulate,) was the only office building of its size and category allowed to open without an approved Fire Protection Plan, Lander said in a release Wednesday. FDNY allegedly allowed the building to open despite safety concerns after Mayor Eric Adams applied pressure illegally, according to a federal indictment.

Turkish House is still operating without a temporary or final Certificate of Occupancy, Lander said — as are 637 other NYC office buildings, which have thousands of unresolved violations, with dozens characterized as “immediately hazardous,” Lander said in a letter to FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker and DOB Commissioner James Oddo dated Jan. 7.

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