939 8 Avenue

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-01046-0036BIN 1080916Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

0111 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 12 apartments
024 of those issued in the last 3 years
039 open rent-impairing violation(s)
042 active DOB 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 23 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 12 apartments.

2018 — 23 units registered2023 — 23

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

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Rent regulation

The building

1930

Built

Floors

Residential units

Store building

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

243

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. This tax lot has 2 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 608Issued 2024-04-262 violations

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 608, 6th STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 608, 6th STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 608Issued 2024-04-12

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 608, 6th STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 600Issued 2023-12-08

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 600, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 600Issued 2023-03-08

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 600, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

125

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water57

Unsanitary Condition36

Water Leak10

Door/Window7

Paint/Plaster7

Plumbing6

Safety1

Outside Building1

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

676

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential223

Unspecified192

Street/Sidewalk127

Commercial81

Vehicle53

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about outdoor noise (mostly residential) — 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

1318

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

110

≈ per month

Felony333

Misdemeanor877

Violation108

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.

ACTIVE · C-CONSTRUCTION OTHER OPTIONAL2007-04-19

ACTIVE · Z-ZONING NONE2006-07-28

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

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2017-06-27—commercial

2017-03-21Apt 607residential

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 2024-12-30

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2024-03-25

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2023-02-08

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2021-07-12

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

EIGHT & 56 ASSOCIATES

Head officer

ZOFIA PEREKSTEIN

Managing agent

DAVID EISENSTEIN REAL ESTATE CORP

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

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale1981-06-15 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage1981-06-15 · no recorded price

Sale1981-06-15no recorded price

EIGHTH & 56TH ASSOCIATES → CZYK REALTY CORP

Sale1981-06-15no recorded price

CZYK REALTY CORP → EIGHTH & 56TH ASSOCIATES

Mortgage1981-06-15no recorded price

borrower EIGHTH & 56TH ASSOCIATES · lender CZYZ, EUGENIA

Sale1970-09-30no recorded price

ADNIE ASSOC. INC → EIGHTH & 56TH ASSOC.

Sale1970-09-30no recorded price

EIGHTH 56TH ASSOCIATES → ADNIEL ASSOC. 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