New York Post

Fixer-upper’s fall from Gracie

- Yoav Gonen

If Mayor de Blasio wants to reduce the number of building violations across the city, he could start at home.

Records show Gracie Mansion was slapped with six Buildings Department violations over the past five months — four for elevator defects identified in 2014 or 2015 that have yet to be corrected.

The remaining violations were for failing to file inspection reports in 2015 for the 218-year-old building’s boilers, which are required annually.

If the boiler oversight had occurred at the home of a regular Joe, it would have resulted in a $2,000 fine.

Luckily for the first family, the government doesn’t levy fines for violations at city-owned buildings.

Parks Department spokeswoma­n Meghan Lalor said the elevator defects were nonhazardo­us and should be fixed in the next week. She called the missed boiler-inspection reports “a paperwork lapse.”

The agency has jurisdicti­on over Gracie Mansion because it’s situated in a public park.

The violations were issued in pairs on Nov. 14, Jan. 3 and Feb. 24 and are still marked “active.”

De Blasio and his family relocated from their Park Slope town house to Gracie Mansion in July 2014.

The Buildings Department issued 14 violations during Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s 12-year tenure, although he didn’t live there.

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