47 Essex Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-00310-0022BIN 1004036Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

016 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 8 apartments
022 open rent-impairing violation(s)

How this is set: open hazardous violations measured against the building's size, then raised by strong distress signals — HPD's enforcement program, court harassment findings, recent evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, and a sold tax lien. Neighborhood noise and crime are not part of it. It describes the public record, not the condition of any one apartment, and a quiet record is not proof of a good building.

Rent regulation

Likely rent-stabilized

The owner registered 8 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 8 apartments.

2018 — 8 units registered2023 — 8

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

Registration counts apply to the building, not to unit numbers. To confirm your own apartment, request your rent history from New York State Homes and Community Renewal — it is free and takes a few weeks.

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The building

1910

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

110

On record

Open Class C

Open Class B

Open Class A

Class C is immediately hazardous, Class B is hazardous, Class A is non-hazardous. A violation stays open until HPD certifies the repair, so some open items may already be fixed. HPD writes a separate violation for each room or spot, so one inspection can produce several near-identical entries; those are grouped below by apartment and date.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 7Issued 2022-02-224 violations

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF EXTENTION CORD AT WEST WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 7, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF EXTENTION CORD AT CEILING IN THE 3rd ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 7, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

2 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF EXTENTION CORD AT CEILING IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 7, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
§ 27-2037, 2038 HMC: PROVIDE A SAFE AND ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF ELECTRIC SERVICE TO THE FIXTURES ...AT CEILINGS.OUTLETS AND WALL SWITCHES THROUGH-OUT IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 7, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 7Issued 2015-06-025+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ILLEGAL FASTENING AT FIRE ESCAPE GATE IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 7, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: HPD couldn't get in to re-inspect

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 8Issued 2015-06-025+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ILLEGAL FASTENING CONSISTING OF LOCK AT FIRE ESCAPE GATE IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 8, 5th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: HPD couldn't get in to re-inspect

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2016-12-195+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE FIRE RETARDANT MATERIAL AT CEILING AT BULKHEAD , 5th STORY

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Electric1

ElectricNo Lighting2022-02-07 · closed

Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

2124

Noise reports · last 12 mo

177

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Commercial954

Street/Sidewalk481

Residential384

Vehicle174

Unspecified117

Park14

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about outdoor noise (mostly commercial) — street life and traffic more than neighbors. This counts how often people call 311, which tracks how densely populated and busy an area is as much as how loud it is — it is not a sound measurement.

Neighborhood noise

Neighborhood crime

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

967

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony278

Misdemeanor593

Violation96

NYPD complaints reported within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year, by severity. This reflects what gets reported and where police are active as much as actual safety, and busier, denser, higher-foot-traffic blocks log more. Locations are approximate — the NYPD shifts each report to the nearest corner for privacy — so read this as rough context, not a safety score.

Neighborhood crime

Bedbug history

No bedbugs reported

The owner filed 6 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.

DOB building violations

Active

On record

Active, last 3 yrs

Violations issued by the Department of Buildings that the owner must correct. Most don't carry a fine on their own; summonses that go to a hearing and can be fined are listed separately under OATH/ECB.

No active DOB violations.

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

Lost by default

These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

No marshal-executed evictions on record for this building. Eviction cases filed in court but not carried out aren't included.

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

Cases on record

Open now

Tenant-brought

Harassment found

With a judgment

Most cases are tenants taking the owner to court to force repairs. A case is not proof of wrongdoing; a harassment finding or judgment is a court ruling against the owner.

CLOSEDOpened 2015-12-03

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2015-03-24

Heat / hot water

These are cases HPD is a party to, mostly tenants suing to force repairs or stop harassment. Eviction cases landlords file against tenants are not in the city's open data, so they don't appear here; the Evictions section shows only evictions a marshal carried out.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

FROS PROPERTY LLC

Head officer

VINCENT YEUNG

Managing agent

FROS PROPERTY LLC

No other buildings found sharing this building's registered contact.

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2012-05-30 · $3,500,000

Most recent mortgage2021-04-29 · $60,754.04

Mortgage2021-04-29$60,754.04

borrower FROS PROPERTY LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2014-02-18$400,000

borrower FROS PROPERTY LLC · lender TD BANK NA

Mortgage2013-05-29$800,000

borrower FROS PROPERTY LLC · lender TD BANK NA

Sale2012-05-30$3,500,000

47 ESSEX L.P. → FROS PROPERTY LLC

Mortgage2012-05-30$732,859.5

borrower FROS PROPERTY LLC · lender TD BANK, N.A.

From ACRIS recorded documents. Amounts are often $0 or nominal for transfers between related parties, and LLCs can obscure who is really involved — treat this as public-record context, not a valuation.

Ownership & money

City debt & tax-lien sale

Not on the city's tax-lien sale list (2019–2025). The owner has not fallen far enough behind on property tax or water charges to be flagged for a lien sale.