# 509 East 85 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1015820104/509-east-85-street-manhattan).
BBL 1015820104 · BIN 1051255 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 6 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 3 apartments
- 3 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 3 active DOB violation(s)

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 6 stabilized units for 2023, of about 15 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 6, 2019: 6, 2020: 6, 2021: 6, 2022: 6, 2023: 6.
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, 15 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

38 open (class C immediately hazardous: 6, class B hazardous: 18, class A non-hazardous: 14); 47 on record.
3 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

3 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 5 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; 6 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (2), DOOR/WINDOW (1), ELECTRIC (1), GENERAL (1), WATER LEAK (1).

## Bedbugs

8 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)

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

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 509 EAST 85 LLC
- Agent: SUSAN PIGGOTT
- HeadOfficer: DAVID ESHAGHIAN
- Shareholder: DAVID ESHAGHIAN
- SiteManager: SUSAN PIGGOTT

The same owner is linked to 4 other buildings (DAVID ESHAGHIAN at 205 LEXINGTON 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/1015820104/509-east-85-street-manhattan