152 West 128 Street

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-01912-0054BIN 1057916Plain-text version

Concern level1 of 4

Low

011 open rent-impairing violation(s)
024 open HPD 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

Not on the rent-stabilized list

Not found in the DOF tax-bill records nor the 2024 DHCR registered building list. Absence isn't proof a unit is unregulated — buildings can be missing or newly deregulated.

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

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Rent regulation

The building

1910

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building4 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 B · HAZARDOUSApt BBIssued 2019-08-215+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE FIRE EGRESS DEFECTIVE. REMOVE OBSTRUCTING BARS OR UNLAWFUL GATES FROM AT LEAST 1 WINDOW OR PROVIDE APPROVED TYPE GATE , IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT BB

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2019-08-212 violations5+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2050 ADM CODE SEAL IN OPEN POSITION THE O.S.Y. VALVE OF THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THIS DEPARTMENT , AT CELLAR
§ 27-2050 ADM CODE PROVIDE A PIECE OF GARDEN HOSE 10 FEET IN LENGTH WITH FEMALE COUPLING AND A 10 QUART PAIL ON PREMISES TO TEST SPRINKLER SYSTEM.

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2008-06-055+ YRS OLD

D26-19.01 ADM CODE AW PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIGHTING AT LEAST 60 WATTS INCANDESCENT OR EQUIVALENT ILLUMINATION-PUBLIC HALL ALL STORIES.

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Unsanitary Condition5

Water Leak2

Safety1

Unsanitary ConditionGarbage/Recycling Storage2026-08-13 · closed

SafetyFire Escape2026-01-04 · closed

Unsanitary ConditionPests2024-12-16 · 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

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

1533

Noise reports · last 12 mo

128

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential988

Street/Sidewalk265

Commercial183

Unspecified66

Vehicle22

House of Worship7

Park1

Helicopter1

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.

Neighborhood noise

Neighborhood crime

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

1015

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony224

Misdemeanor656

Violation135

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 3 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.

No active DOB violations.

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

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.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

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

Cases on record

Open now

Tenant-brought

Harassment found

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 2012-12-07

CONH

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

Queen Esthers Castle LLC

Head officer

Ezra Kassin

Managing agent

Strivers Management Group Corp.

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

145 WEST 118 STREETMANHATTAN 243 WEST 122 STREETMANHATTAN 455 ROGERS AVENUEBROOKLYN 68 WEST 126 STREETMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Speculation watch

·Changed hands in 2026 — new owners sometimes move to raise rents or deregulate units

A pattern, not a prediction — many transfers are ordinary or between related companies.

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2026-06-04 · $2,300,000

Most recent mortgage2019-06-12 · $2,175,000

Sale2026-06-04$2,300,000

152 WEST 128 HOLDING, LLC, CARTER REALTY HOLDING OWNER LLC → QUEEN ESTHERS CASTLE LLC

Sale2026-06-01no recorded price

152 WEST 128 HOLDING, LLC → 152 WEST 128 HOLDING, LLC, CARTER REALTY HOLDING OWNER LLC

Mortgage2019-06-12$2,175,000

borrower 152 WEST 128 HOLDING, LLC · lender SIGNATURE BANK

Sale2005-11-01$725,000

OUSLEY, ETHELYN, BUTLER, A/K/A, LYNN, PEOPLES, CO-GUARDIANS, GERA RUBENS, MCKENZIE,CO-GUARDIANS, MAXINE → 152 WEST 128 HOLDING LLC

Sale1980-06-17no recorded price

GOPHER FLOWER LODGE462 → OUSLEY, ETHELYN

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