# 524 East 85 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1015810142/524-east-85-street-manhattan).
BBL 1015810142 · BIN 1085721 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: low

- No open hazardous violations found

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 4 stabilized units for 2023, of about 10 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 3, 2019: 4, 2020: 4, 2021: 4, 2022: 4, 2023: 4.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1900, 5 floors, 10 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

0 open (class C immediately hazardous: 0, class B hazardous: 0, class A non-hazardous: 0); 39 on record.

## DOB building violations

0 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 7 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

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

## 311 housing complaints

0 in the last 12 months; 1 on record.
Most common: PLUMBING (1).

## Bedbugs

8 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)

3 cases on record, 0 open, 2 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- Agent: Stephen murphy
- SiteManager: Stephen murphy
- JointOwner: Stephen Murphy
- JointOwner: Stephen murphy

## 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/1015810142/524-east-85-street-manhattan