640 East 14 Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-00396-0027BIN 1004943Plain-text version

Concern level3 of 4

High

013 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 7 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 6 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 20 apartments.

2018 — 6 units registered2023 — 6

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

1920

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building9 others linked to the same owner

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 2023-05-023 violationsRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE LOWER WINDOW SASH AT ROOF BULHEAD
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROVIDE SECURITY IN THE EVENT OF A POWER OUTAGE BY MEANS OF A HEAVY DUTY LOCK AND LATCH SET AT BUILDING ENTRANCE DOOR AT PUBLIC HALL, 1st STORY

1 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ILLEGAL FASTENING ELECTROMAGNETIC LOCKING DEVICE AT BUILDING ENTRANCE DOOR AT PUBLIC HALL, 1st STORY

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 20Issued 2015-03-273 violations5+ YRS OLD

SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE 3rd ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 20, 5th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST
SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 20, 5th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

1 more from the same inspection

SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WINDOW LOWER SASH COUNTER BALANCE IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 20, 5th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 20Issued 2011-02-225+ YRS OLD

SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR CEILING IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 20, 5th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2008-06-045+ YRS OLD

D26-10.01 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF EXPOSED EXTENSION WIRES THROUGHOUT AT 1 STY FRONT WEST APT.

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

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Unsanitary Condition5

Flooring/Stairs2

Door/Window1

General1

Heat/Hot Water1

Paint/Plaster1

Heat/Hot WaterApartment Only2026-01-26 · closed

Unsanitary ConditionPests2023-01-02 · closed

Paint/PlasterWall2023-01-02 · 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

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

725

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential370

Unspecified161

Street/Sidewalk144

Commercial35

Vehicle9

Park3

Helicopter3

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

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

291

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony52

Misdemeanor197

Violation42

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 8 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.

ConstructionClass 22024-05-31$1,250 penalty

ConstructionClass 22023-12-23$625 penalty

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2018-04-12Apt 19residential

Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.

Evictions

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 2006-09-29

Tenant action

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

GMART NY 2022 LLC

Head officer

TAL ADINI

Managing agent

MARIN MANAGEMENT CORP

9 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.

106 EAST 7 STREETMANHATTAN 217 EAST 22 STREETMANHATTAN 239 WEST 15 STREETMANHATTAN 326 EAST 89 STREETMANHATTAN 327 EAST 89 STREETMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Speculation watch

·Changed hands in 2025 — new owners sometimes move to raise rents or deregulate units

A pattern, not a prediction — many transfers are ordinary or between related companies.

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2025-05-01 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage2025-05-01 · $50,000,000

Mortgage2025-05-01$50,000,000

borrower JAM E 89 DE LLC, TARGAM DE LLC, GMART DE 2022 LLC, SPARTON E33 DE LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Sale2025-05-01no recorded price

GMART NY 2022 → GMART DE 2022

Sale2022-06-09$11,800,000

EAST 14TH STREET REALTY, LP → GMART NY 2022 LLC

Mortgage2021-03-22$8,137,426.45

borrower VILLAGE REALTY PARTNERS, L.P., EAST 14TH STREET REALTY, LP, DOS PASSOS LLC, 217 E. 22ND ST. ASSOCIATES, L.P. · lender CITI REAL ESTATE FUNDING INC.

Mortgage2011-01-18$2,043,548.98

borrower EAST 14TH STREET REALTY, LP · lender NEW YORK COMMERCIAL BANK

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.