322 West 101 Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-01889-0128BIN 1057173Plain-text version

Concern level3 of 4

High

012 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 5 apartments
021 active DOB violation(s)

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 1 stabilized unit with New York State for 2023 — of about 10 apartments.

2018 — 2 units registered2023 — 1

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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Rent regulation

The building

1901

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building7 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. 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 8Issued 2007-10-152 violations5+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) 1st WINDOW SASH FROM WEST AT NORTH WALL, 2nd WINDOW SASH FROM WEST AT NORTH WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT WEST LOCATED AT APT 8, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) 1st DOOR FROM EAST AT SOUTH WALL, 1st DOOR FRAME FROM EAST AT SOUTH WALL, 1st WINDOW FRAME FROM WEST AT NORTH WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT EAST LOCATED AT APT 8, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH

Status: Defect letter issued

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2007-10-155+ YRS OLD

SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BALUSTERS AT 2ND STORY AT PUBLIC HALL STAIRS

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 5Issued 1991-03-055+ YRS OLD

SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF VENTALATION OBSTRUCTED AT 3 STY SOUTH APT 5 KITCHENETTE AS PER 27-2071 HMC. , SECTION '' ''

Status: HPD couldn't get in to re-inspect

CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSIssued 2016-06-145+ YRS OLD

SECTION 26-1103 ADMIN. CODE: POST AND MAINTAIN A PROPER NOTICE ON WALL OF THE ENTRANCE STORY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH ON THE AVAILABILITY OF THE AGENCY?S HOUSING INFORMATION GUIDE. A SAMPLE NOTICE CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.NYC.GOV/HPD. AT PUBLIC HALL, 1st STORY

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water2

Heat/Hot WaterApartment Only2023-02-04 · closed

Heat/Hot WaterEntire Building2023-02-04 · closed

Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

757

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential227

Helicopter148

Park134

Unspecified113

Street/Sidewalk105

Vehicle24

Commercial6

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

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

374

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony88

Misdemeanor249

Violation37

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.

Bedbug history

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.

ACTIVE · P-PLUMBING NONE2025-07-29

BASED ON LIC # 1343 BEING INACTIVE, STOP ALL PLUMBING WORK UNDER JOB #101844444 IMMEDIATELY.

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2023-03-08Apt 5residential

Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.

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.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

322 WEST 101ST STREET CORP

Head officer

BESS FERN

Managing agent

CASTAGNELLO REALTY LLC

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

14 WEST 76 STREETMANHATTAN 144 WEST 88 STREETMANHATTAN 16 WEST 76 STREETMANHATTAN 221 WEST 79 STREETMANHATTAN 54 WEST 76 STREETMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale1994-09-26 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage1989-12-11 · $120,000

Sale1994-09-26no recorded price

322 WEST 101ST STREET EQUITIES INC. → 322 W. 101ST STREETCORP.

Mortgage1989-12-11$120,000

borrower 322 WEST 101 ST EQTSINC · lender JOHN D. CASTAGNELLOETAL

Mortgage1988-08-19$75,000

borrower 322 W 101ST ST EQUITIES · lender CASTAGNELLO, JOHN DPC

Mortgage1987-07-10$50,000

borrower 322 W 101 ST EQUITESINC · lender D.B.J.R. CONST CORP

Mortgage1987-07-10$300,000

borrower 322 W 101 ST EQUITESINC · lender COHOES SAVINGS BANK

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.

City debt & tax-lien sale