UNITED PARCEL SERVICE FOSTER AVE NYFOS

United Parcel Service Foster Ave NYFOS is a single-facility EPA ECHO record tied to UPS's Brooklyn-area package operations, carrying one violation quarter within the trailing 24 months and a derived penalty allocation of $2,148,000 as of 04-May-2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That figure is not a discrete fine. It is a straight-line slice of a longer enforcement history, prorated across a 24-month window from a five-year penalty total. The facility reports zero active permits and a latest permit date of 14-Feb-2023. Its EJ index average sits at 0.0 — a value that signals missing or suppressed demographic overlay in the ECHO export, not a confirmed absence of exposure. Brooklyn's residential density makes that distinction consequential, and readers should consult EPA EJScreen directly before drawing any exposure conclusions.

The parent entity, UPS (CIK 0001090727), filed its 2025 Form 10-K on 17-Feb-2026, disclosing $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and 5.2 billion packages delivered [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those headline numbers arrived against a difficult market backdrop. On 04-May-2026, UPS shares fell 9.68% in a single session, driven by the Amazon Supply Chain Services launch and Q1 2026 earnings contraction [source: https://tradingkey.com/news/market-movers/261853359-market-movers-ups-20260504]. That same week, The New York Times reported active resident litigation over delivery practices on Staten Island [source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/nyregion/ups-staten-island-packages-lines.html].

The Foster Ave record sits within a broader UPS NAICS 492110 footprint where the top-ranked corporate entity — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC — shows 11 facilities, 8 violation quarters, and $10.64 million in derived 24-month penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Foster Ave alone accounts for roughly 20% of that parent-slug penalty total on a single site. No sustainability-report disclosure specific to the Foster Ave facility was located in the research bundle.

EPA ECHO data as of 04-May-2026 identifies one facility under the united-parcel-service-foster-ave-nyfos slug — FRS/ECHO facility ID 110019238788 — with one quarter of noncompliance in the trailing 24 months and a derived penalty allocation of $2,148,000 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The derivation methodology prorates the five-year penalty total across a 24-month window (penalty_24mo = total_5yr × 24/60), so the headline figure is an allocated slice of a longer enforcement tail rather than a single-incident fine. ECHO lists zero active permits for this facility and a latest permit date of 14-Feb-2023, indicating either permit expiration or a shift to a non-permitted operational profile. No top-pollutants list is populated in the ECHO export for this slug, which is consistent with logistics-terminal facilities where emissions reporting flows through mobile-source rules rather than stationary-source TRI thresholds.

The 24-month chronology for the Foster Ave record is sparse in the public bundle. The 14-Feb-2023 permit action precedes the trailing 24-month window, and the single violation quarter cannot be pinned to a specific month without pulling the facility detail report directly from ECHO. That data gap matters for anyone trying to sequence the enforcement history against operational changes at the site. Contextual litigation filed in the Southern District of New York — Foster v. United Parcel Service of America, Inc., 7:18-cv-10925 — remains on the docket with a 2022 document entry, though that case predates the current compliance window and concerns employment claims rather than environmental permitting [source: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/7:2018cv10925/505262/39/]. In October 2024, a Staten Island resident filed a putative class action alleging discriminatory delivery practices at Fox Hill and Park Hill apartments [source: https://www.silive.com/news/2024/10/staten-island-man-sues-ups-alleging-discriminatory-delivery-practice.html], and The New York Times reported continued resident suits on 28-Apr-2026 [source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/nyregion/ups-staten-island-packages-lines.html]. These are civil-rights delivery-access matters, not environmental enforcement, but they contextualize the community-facing footprint of UPS New York operations.

In February 2026, UPS announced U.S. package-facility closures that prompted a Teamsters lawsuit; local reporting assessed New York exposure [source: https://www.silive.com/business/2026/02/ups-is-closing-package-facilities-in-us-are-any-locations-in-ny-affected.html]. The closure program coincides with the December 2025 USPS last-mile agreement disclosed in the 10-K [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm], which shifts Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volume beginning 2026 and may alter the operational intensity of New York sorting facilities, including Foster Ave. EPA has not published any consent decree, administrative order, or judicial referral tied to the Foster Ave NYFOS slug in the current ECHO exporter snapshot.

The ECHO exporter snapshot dated 04-May-2026 attributes one quarter of noncompliance and $2,148,000 in derived penalties to facility ID 110019238788 over the trailing 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The derivation note specifies that viol_24mo is capped at min(qtrs_with_nc, 8) and penalty_24mo is a straight-line allocation of the five-year total. Working backward, the $2.148 million figure implies an approximate $5.37 million five-year enforcement history attached to this facility or its enforcement parent. That is a meaningful sum for a single logistics terminal. The public export does not disaggregate the penalty by program — CWA, CAA, or RCRA — and no specific settlement date, consent-decree docket number, or pollutant schedule accompanies the slug in the bundle.

No CourtListener or PACER docket in the research set directly corresponds to an EPA enforcement action against the Foster Ave facility. The Foster v. UPS case at 7:18-cv-10925 is an employment-law matter [source: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/7:2018cv10925/505262/39/], and 7:18-cv-10294 on CourtListener shares the Foster caption but is separately docketed [source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8141420/authorities/foster-v-united-parcel-service-of-america-inc/]. Neither case touches environmental permitting at the Brooklyn site. Additional specificity on program, pollutant, and settlement date would require pulling the ECHO facility detail page directly via the FRS interface [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110001594169].

Foster Ave NYFOS — Brooklyn, NY; FRS ID 110019238788 — is the sole facility under this corporate slug in the ECHO export, carrying one violation quarter, $2,148,000 in derived 24-month penalties, zero active permits, and a latest permit date of 14-Feb-2023 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ index average is recorded as 0.0. In ECHO, that value typically signals that the demographic overlay was not joined to the facility record rather than a confirmed low-exposure profile. Brooklyn ZIP-code EJScreen data generally shows elevated particulate and diesel NOx exposure indices in the 75th–95th percentile nationally, though the bundle does not contain a facility-specific EJScreen pull. That distinction is not academic. A 0.0 EJ index on a Brooklyn logistics terminal should be read as a data-completeness artifact, not a clean bill of environmental health for the surrounding neighborhood.

The related FRS record for UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - QUEEN NORTH-NYLIC (registry 110001594169) appears in EPA's FRS query system as a separate New York UPS node [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110001594169], illustrating that UPS's New York City footprint is subdivided across multiple FRS identifiers. Corporate-level penalty totals at the parent UPS INC slug — $10.64 million over 24 months across 11 facilities — aggregate across such nodes [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No additional facilities are attached to the Foster Ave slug, so a top-5 facility ranking is not applicable; the peer_comparison block captures the multi-facility corporate aggregates.

The ECHO export returns an empty top_pollutants array for the Foster Ave NYFOS slug [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip], and no TRI, NEI, or DMR extract specific to the facility appears in the research bundle. For NAICS 492110 package-delivery terminals, the dominant exposure pathways are mobile-source diesel particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from line-haul tractors, package cars, and ground-support equipment, plus occasional stormwater discharges under CWA multi-sector general permits. Those pathways do not generate TRI thresholds at most sorting facilities, which explains the empty pollutants array without resolving the underlying exposure question. A regional investigation into New York City warehouse growth documented community concerns about truck traffic volumes at Amazon, FedEx, and UPS sites [source: https://www.dcquake.com/news/environment/amazon-fedex-and-ups-deliver-new-nyc-warehouses-bringing-a-package-of-enviro]. Without a facility-specific pollutant schedule in the bundle, the toxicity and EJ analysis cannot be anchored to Foster Ave–specific emissions. Readers should treat the 0.0 EJ index as a data-completeness artifact and consult EPA EJScreen directly for the Brooklyn census block group before drawing exposure conclusions.

Within NAICS 492110/49211, the three highest-penalty UPS-branded corporate slugs in ECHO carry a combined $22.8 million in derived 24-month penalties across 37 facilities and 20 violation quarters [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Foster Ave NYFOS single-facility slug, at $2.148 million and one violation quarter, represents roughly 9% of that combined penalty total on a single-site basis — a disproportionate per-facility rate relative to the UPS INC parent slug, which averages approximately $967,000 per facility over the same window. Put differently, Foster Ave generates more than twice the per-facility penalty rate of its corporate parent. The ej_index_avg of 0.0 across all four slugs reflects missing demographic joins in the export rather than confirmed low exposure.

The 2025 Form 10-K Item 1A excerpt in the bundle addresses forward-looking-statement limitations and directs readers to the Investor Relations website for material updates, noting the company's reliance on Regulation FD disclosure channels [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The excerpt available does not include the full environmental-risk paragraphs. Item 1 does disclose the December 2025 USPS last-mile agreement and the acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group, both of which expand cold-chain healthcare logistics and associated refrigerant and energy-intensity exposure [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those acquisitions add regulated refrigerants and cold-storage energy loads to a compliance profile that already carries $10.64 million in derived 24-month penalties at the parent-slug level. Forward environmental risk for the Foster Ave facility specifically is not separately disclosed in the bundled 10-K/10-Q excerpts.