219 East 26 Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-00907-0013BIN 1019850Plain-text version

Concern level2 of 4

Moderate

011 open rent-impairing violation(s)
026 open HPD 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 2 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 18 apartments.

2018 — 2 units registered2023 — 2

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

1912

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building32 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 B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2017-10-183 violations5+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CONCRETE LINTEL AT 1ST WINDOW FROM WEST AT BUILDING FRONT , 2nd STORY
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CONCRETE LINTEL AT 1ST WINDOW FROM WEST AT BUILDING FRONT , 4th STORY

1 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CONCRETE LINTEL AT 4TH WINDOW FROM WEST AT BUILDING FRONT , 3rd STORY

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 WIRING EAST CELLAR THROUGHOUT.

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

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2003-05-145+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 53,187,231 M/D LAW & DEPT RULES & REG. PROVIDE MEANS OF EGRESS FROM YARD TO STREET BY FIREPROOF PASSAGEWAY FOR WHICH APPLICATION MUST BE FILED FOR APPROVAL,OR BY UNLOCKED DOOR OR GATE IN FENCE TO ADJOINING PREMISES WITH CONSENT OF ADJACENT OWNER.

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

CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSIssued 2008-06-045+ YRS OLD

D26-10.01 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PAVING REAR YARD.

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Unsanitary Condition2

Unsanitary ConditionPests2026-08-07 · closed

Unsanitary ConditionPests2021-11-19 · 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

4953

Noise reports · last 12 mo

413

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential2881

Helicopter1361

Unspecified259

Street/Sidewalk198

Commercial167

Vehicle67

Park20

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

552

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony159

Misdemeanor333

Violation60

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.

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

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.

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

219 EAST 26TH STREET, LLC

Head officer

MARTIN BAUMRIND

Managing agent

LUCY BAUMRIND

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

125 1 AVENUEMANHATTAN 127 1 AVENUEMANHATTAN 131 AMITY STREETBROOKLYN 155 AMITY STREETBROOKLYN 160 1 AVENUEMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2008-02-27 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage2015-06-16 · $2,190,000

Mortgage2015-06-16$2,190,000

borrower 219 EAST 26TH STREET, LLC · lender ASTORIA BANK

Sale2008-02-27no recorded price

BAUMRIND, MARTIN → 219 EAST 26TH STREET, LLC

Mortgage1988-01-11$448,992.77

borrower BAUMRIND, SEYMOUR, BAUMRIND, MARTIN · lender BROOKLYN FED S&L ASSN

Mortgage1984-05-31$210,000

borrower BAUMRIND, MARTIN M., BAUMRIND, SEYMOUR · lender FLATBUSH FEDL SV&LNETC.

Sale1984-05-23no recorded price

ARAMCO INTERNATIONALETC → BAUMRIND, MARTIN M., BAUMRIND, SEYMOUR

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