444 East 85 Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-01564-0030BIN 1050506Plain-text version

Concern level1 of 4

Low

01No open hazardous violations found

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 4 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 11 apartments.

2018 — 4 units registered2023 — 4

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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The building

1925

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building5 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.

No open HPD violations.

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

No 311 housing complaints on record for this building.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

826

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential307

Unspecified294

Street/Sidewalk98

Commercial60

Vehicle55

Helicopter7

Park5

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

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

251

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony68

Misdemeanor153

Violation30

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 6 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.

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

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

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.

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

HEB ASSOCIATES LLC

Head officer

MICHAEL BERGMAN

Managing agent

VINSON YUEN

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

207 WEST 102 STREETMANHATTAN 446 EAST 85 STREETMANHATTAN 50 WEST 85 STREETMANHATTAN 57 WEST 82 STREETMANHATTAN 59 WEST 82 STREETMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2017-07-31 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage1971-01-06 · no recorded price

Sale2017-07-31no recorded price

BERGMAN, JOHN → HEB ASSOCIATES, LLC

Sale1977-10-24no recorded price

1244 GRAND CONCOURSE → BERGMAN, JOHN

Sale1973-03-07no recorded price

PINTO, ERNEST → 1244 GRAND CONCOURSE

Mortgage1971-01-06no recorded price

borrower ADNIL ASSOCIATES INC, PINOT, ERNEST · lender PICKARD, JEANETTE B, PENN REALTY CO DBA

Sale1970-05-14no recorded price

LEVY, FRANCES S, SHAPIRO, AARON → ADNIL ASSOCIATES 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.