# 440 East 79 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1014730018/440-east-79-street-manhattan).
BBL 1014730018 · BIN 1046026 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: high

- 1 open class-C HPD violation (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 219 apartments
- 1 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 5 active DOB violation(s)
- $7,500 in unpaid OATH/ECB fines

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 27 stabilized units for 2023, of about 219 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 34, 2019: 34, 2020: 32, 2021: 30, 2022: 30, 2023: 27.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1956, 16 floors, 219 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

16 open (class C immediately hazardous: 1, class B hazardous: 7, class A non-hazardous: 8); 23 on record.
1 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.

## DOB building violations

5 active (2 issued in the last 3 years); 62 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

8 active of 15 on record; 0 decided by default; $7,500 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

0 in the last 12 months; 4 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (2), GENERAL (1), HEAT/HOT WATER (1).

## Bedbugs

6 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

0 executed in the last 3 years; 1 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

1 cases on record, 0 open, 1 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 440 EAST 79TH ST OWNERS
- Agent: CENTURY MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC
- HeadOfficer: William BERNSTEIN
- Officer: ADAM ZERKA
- SiteManager: Vigan Ahmetaj

## 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/1014730018/440-east-79-street-manhattan