# 438 West 45 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1010540053/438-west-45-street-manhattan).
BBL 1010540053 · BIN 1026424 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: high

- On HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program — the city's most-distressed-buildings list
- 1 open class-C HPD violation (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 30 apartments
- 1 of those issued in the last 3 years

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.

## HPD Alternative Enforcement Program

Currently on AEP, the city's most-distressed-buildings program, since 2024-01-31.

## Rent stabilization

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 12 stabilized units for 2023, of about 30 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 12, 2019: 12, 2020: 6, 2023: 12.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1920, 5 floors, 30 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

7 open (class C immediately hazardous: 1, class B hazardous: 3, class A non-hazardous: 2); 270 on record.
1 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.

## DOB building violations

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

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

0 active of 2 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

1 in the last 12 months; 108 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (67), DOOR/WINDOW (15), ELECTRIC (6), UNSANITARY CONDITION (5), GENERAL (4).

## Bedbugs

5 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)

7 cases on record, 0 open, 3 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## City debt and tax-lien sale

On a tax-lien sale list in 2025 (10-day notice).

## Landlord

- SiteManager: Alex Gniteev
- HeadOfficer: MARVIN AZRAK
- Agent: CLINTON ASSOCIATES LLC
- CorporateOwner: Clinton Associates LLC

The same owner is linked to 14 other buildings (MARVIN AZRAK at 400 MADISON AVENUE).

## 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/1010540053/438-west-45-street-manhattan