The owner registered 7 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 20 apartments.
22
23
2022 — 9 units registered2023 — 7
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.
Self-reported by the owner for the year ending each filing. Counts are building-wide and do not say which apartment was affected.
DOB building violations
OATH/ECB violations and fines
$0
Balance due (active)
0
Active violations
0
Lost by default
These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.
Evictions
Housing court
Landlord and related buildings
Ownership & money
No recorded sales or mortgages found in ACRIS for this lot.
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.
Housing court: repair & harassment cases
9
Cases on record
0
Open now
7
Tenant-brought
0
Harassment found
0
With a judgment
Most cases are tenants taking the owner to court to force repairs. A case is not proof of wrongdoing; a harassment finding or judgment is a court ruling against the owner.
CLOSEDOpened 2018-05-30
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2018-01-22
Heat / hot water
CLOSEDOpened 2017-11-09
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2015-08-13
Tenant action
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
66 West 138 LLC
Head officer
YIDA STERN
Managing agent
Yida Stern
65 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
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.
Evictions
No marshal-executed evictions on record for this building. Eviction cases filed in court but not carried out aren't included.
311 complaints from tenants
58
All time
26
Last 12 months
Heat/Hot Water18
Unsanitary Condition14
General8
Door/Window6
Paint/Plaster4
Water Leak3
Plumbing2
Outside Building1
Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.
Unsanitary ConditionPests2026-04-06 · closed
Unsanitary ConditionPests2026-03-26 · closed
Unsanitary ConditionPests2026-03-26 · closed
Concern level2 of 4
Moderate
012 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 10 apartments
022 of those issued in the last 3 years
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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
11
Open now
351
On record
2
Open Class C
6
Open Class B
3
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. HPD writes a separate violation for each room or spot, so one inspection can produce several near-identical entries; those are grouped below by apartment and date.
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2BIssued 2026-04-07
HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 1AIssued 2025-09-30
§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE HINGES IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 1A, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 1BIssued 2018-12-102 violations5+ YRS OLD
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 1B, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 1B, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 2DIssued 2018-12-102 violations5+ YRS OLD
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2D, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE VINYL FLOOR TILES IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT 2D, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
Neighborhood crime
Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
739
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
62
≈ per month
Felony204
Misdemeanor358
Violation177
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 noise
Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
1118
Noise reports · last 12 mo
93
≈ per month
62
% from neighbors
Residential690
Street/Sidewalk235
Unspecified137
Vehicle26
House of Worship16
Commercial13
Park1
311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. 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.
