# 257 West 21 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1007710009/257-west-21-street-manhattan).
BBL 1007710009 · BIN 1014063 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: low

- No open hazardous violations found

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 2 stabilized units for 2023, of about 10 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2020: 2, 2021: 2, 2022: 2, 2023: 2.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1901, 5 floors, 10 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

0 open (class C immediately hazardous: 0, class B hazardous: 0, class A non-hazardous: 0); 14 on record.

## DOB building violations

0 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 4 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

0 active of 4 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

0 in the last 12 months; 0 on record.

## Bedbugs

9 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)

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

## Landlord

- SiteManager: RACHEL STOWELL
- Shareholder: MICHAEL KATZ
- HeadOfficer: LORI BUCHBINDER
- Agent: BUCHBINDER AND WARREN LLC
- Officer: MICHAEL KATZ
- CorporateOwner: LES FILLES QUATRE LLC

The same owner is linked to 33 other buildings (LORI BUCHBINDER at ONE UNION SQUARE WEST).

## 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/1007710009/257-west-21-street-manhattan