# 279 West 117 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1019230001/279-west-117-street-manhattan).
BBL 1019230001 · BIN 1086232 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: low

- 1 eviction executed in the last 3 years

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 138 stabilized units for 2023, of about 138 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 138, 2019: 138, 2020: 138, 2021: 138, 2022: 138, 2023: 138.
Receives the 421-a tax benefit, scheduled to expire around 2031; stabilization tied to 421-a generally ends when the benefit does.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 2003, 10 floors, 138 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

0 open (class C immediately hazardous: 0, class B hazardous: 0, class A non-hazardous: 0); 14 on record.

## DOB building violations

0 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 125 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

0 active of 11 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

14 in the last 12 months; 34 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (21), UNSANITARY CONDITION (9), PLUMBING (2), ELEVATOR (1), WATER LEAK (1).

## Bedbugs

8 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

1 executed in the last 3 years; 3 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

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

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: FRED-DOUG 117 LLC
- Agent: IBEC BUILDING CORP
- HeadOfficer: JOHN FREZZA
- Officer: KEN SAPERSTEIN
- Shareholder: JOHN FREZZA
- SiteManager: EDDIE AHMETAJ

The same owner is linked to 2 other buildings (JOHN FREZZA at 368 EAST 69TH ST).

## 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/1019230001/279-west-117-street-manhattan