# 187 Rear Hester Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1002370034/187-rear-hester-street-manhattan).
BBL 1002370034 · BIN 1079591 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: moderate

- 1 open class-C HPD violation (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 20 apartments
- 1 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)

Scale: low, moderate, high, severe. Set from open hazardous violations relative to building size, raised by distress signals (HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program, court harassment findings, evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, a sold tax lien). It describes the public record, not any one apartment.

## Rent stabilization

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 8 stabilized units for 2023, of about 20 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2019: 8, 2020: 8, 2021: 8, 2022: 8, 2023: 8.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1900, 5 floors, 20 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

6 open (class C immediately hazardous: 0, class B hazardous: 2, class A non-hazardous: 4); 88 on record.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.
This tax lot has 2 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

## DOB building violations

0 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 0 on record.

## 311 housing complaints

11 in the last 12 months; 57 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (29), WATER LEAK (6), PAINT/PLASTER (5), GENERAL (4), ELECTRIC (4).

## Bedbugs

10 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

0 executed in the last 3 years; 0 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

2 cases on record, 0 open, 2 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: BSP HESTER LLC
- Agent: NIEUW AMSTERDAM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
- HeadOfficer: MATTHEW KELLER
- SiteManager: Dino Mrkulic

The same owner is linked to 49 other buildings (MATTHEW KELLER at 80 FIFTH AVENUE).

## Sources and limits

NYC Open Data (HPD, DOB, OATH/ECB, 311, DOF, PLUTO) and NYS DHCR building lists. This is a screening signal from public records, not legal advice; records lag and contain errors. Full interactive report with violation details and maps: https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1002370034/187-rear-hester-street-manhattan