168 1/2 Delancey Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-00348-0076BIN 1004215Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

015 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 7 apartments
025 of those issued in the last 3 years
034 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 9 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 7 apartments.

2018 — 9 units registered2023 — 9

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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Rent regulation

The building

1900

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

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 HAZARDOUSIssued 2026-07-143 violationsRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE FIRE ESCAPE DEFECTIVE. REPLACE WITH NEW THE BROKEN, DEFECTIVE AND/OR MISSING 13TH METAL TREAD FROM BOTTOM OF 5TH BALCONY AT BUILDING FRONT AT FIRE ESCAPE
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE FIRE ESCAPE DEFECTIVE. PROPERLY SECURE 12TH METAL TREAD FROM BOTTOM OF 3RD STORY BALCONY AT BUILDING FRONT AT FIRE ESCAPE

1 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE FIRE ESCAPE DEFECTIVE. PROPERLY SECURE 6TH METAL TREAD FROM BOTTOM OF 5TH STORY BALCONY AT BUILDING FRONT AT FIRE ESCAPE

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 5AIssued 2026-07-062 violationsRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE HINGES AT DOOR IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 5A, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
§ 27-2070 ADM CODE PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE FIXTURES AT GAS RANGE IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 5A, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 5AIssued 2026-07-06

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR WEST WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 5A, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

General1

GeneralCooking Gas2026-06-30 · 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

1533

Noise reports · last 12 mo

128

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential825

Street/Sidewalk276

Commercial263

Unspecified125

Vehicle43

Park1

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. 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

1101

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony295

Misdemeanor663

Violation143

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

Infested, latest filing

Annual filings

2024–20250 infested · 0 eradicated

2023–20240 infested · 0 eradicated

Self-reported by the owner for the year ending each filing. Counts are building-wide and do not say which apartment was affected.

Bedbug history

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

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

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.

Evictions

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.

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

168 1/2 DELANCEY CORP

Head officer

PATRICIA TANG

Managing agent

PATRICIA TANG

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

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale1975-06-05 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage2015-04-29 · $208,131.58

Mortgage2015-04-29$208,131.58

borrower 168 1/2 DELANCEY CORP. · lender FLUSHING BANK

Mortgage2002-06-21$600,000

borrower 168 1/2 DELANCEY CORP. · lender BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD

Sale1975-06-05no recorded price

CHAMAH HOLDING CO INC → 168 1/2 DELANCEY CORP

Mortgage1975-06-05no recorded price

borrower 168 1/2 DELANCEY CORP · lender CLEMAH HOLDING CO INC

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.

City debt & tax-lien sale