012 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 4 apartments
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.
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The owner registered 2 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 7 apartments.
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2018 — 2 units registered2023 — 2
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.
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No 311 housing complaints on record for this building.
Neighborhood noise
Neighborhood crime
Bedbug history
No bedbugs reported
The owner filed 6 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.
DOB building violations
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.
Housing court
Landlord and related buildings
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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
2
Open now
7
On record
2
Open Class C
0
Open Class B
0
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 2023-02-012 violations
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY SECURE THE LOOSE LOOSE WOOD BALUSTER RAILING AT 1ST STY PUBLIC HALL
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF EXPOSED ELECTRICAL LIGHT SWITCHS AT EAST WALL ,BASEMENT STY PUBLIC HALL
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
Neighborhood noise
Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
792
Noise reports · last 12 mo
66
≈ per month
29
% from neighbors
Residential232
Unspecified222
Street/Sidewalk185
Commercial79
Vehicle64
Helicopter7
Park3
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 crime
Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
689
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
57
≈ per month
Felony215
Misdemeanor367
Violation107
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.
DOB building violations
0
Active
6
On record
0
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.
OATH/ECB violations and fines
$0
Balance due (active)
0
Active violations
0
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.
Housing court: repair & harassment cases
1
Cases on record
0
Open now
1
Tenant-brought
0
Harassment found
0
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 2018-04-10
Heat / hot water
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.
Landlord and related buildings
Registered owner
NINTH AVENUE REALTY LLC
Head officer
MARK SCHARFMAN
Managing agent
NINTH AVE REALTY LLC
113 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
borrower NINTH AVENUE REALTY,LLC · lender QUEENS COUNTY SAVINGS BANK
Sale1998-06-30no recorded price
EASTERN PORK PRODUCTS COMPANY → NINTH AVENUE REALTY,LLC
Mortgage1996-11-07$11,000,000
borrower EASTERN PORK PRODUCTS COMPANY · lender REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK
Sale1977-12-22no recorded price
DURST, RAY H, DURST, DAVID, ASKIN, ALMA D, DURST, SEYMOUR B → EASTERN PK PRDCT CO
Mortgage1977-12-22no recorded price
borrower EASTERN PK PRDCTS CO · lender DURST, DAVID, DURST, RAY H, DURST, SEYMOUR B, ASKIN, ALMA D
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.