1768 Amsterdam Avenue

Manhattan, NY

BBL 1-02079-0032BIN 1061986Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

015 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 4 apartments
024 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.

Rent regulation

Likely rent-stabilized

The owner registered 4 stabilized units with New York State for 2019 — essentially all of the building's 4 apartments.

2018 — 4 units registered2019 — 4

J-51 tax benefit

Rent stabilization here may be tied to a tax benefit and can end when the benefit expires.

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

1930

Built

Floors

Residential units

Mixed residential / commercial

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building100 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 4B

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF SCALDING HOT WATER ABOVE 130 DEGREES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2026-10-224 violations

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CERAMIC FLOOR TILE AT PUBLIC HALL, 2nd STORY
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CERAMIC TILE AT 12TH TREAD FROM BOTTOM AT PUBLIC HALL STAIRS, 1st STORY

2 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CERAMIC FLOOR TILE AT, 1ST AND 4TH TREAD FROM BOTTOM AT PUBLIC HALL STAIRS, 2nd STORY
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CERAMIC FLOOR TILE AT , 2ND AND 3RD TREAD FROM BOTTOM AT PUBLIC HALL STAIRS, 3rd STORY

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 4BIssued 2026-10-222 violations

§ 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT CEILING, SOUTH WALL NORTH WALL AND EAST WALL IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 4B UPPER LEVEL, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR AT SOUTH WALL, NORTH WALL EAST WALL AND CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 4B UPPER LEVEL, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 4BIssued 2025-05-08

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR AT CEILING, EAST WALL AND NORTH WALL IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water3

Water Leak3

Unsanitary Condition1

Heat/Hot WaterEntire Building2026-10-19 · closed

Heat/Hot WaterEntire Building2026-10-18 · closed

Heat/Hot WaterApartment Only2025-12-27 · 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

1790

Noise reports · last 12 mo

149

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential872

Street/Sidewalk523

Unspecified144

Vehicle124

Commercial117

House of Worship10

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

410

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony131

Misdemeanor198

Violation81

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 7 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

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

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

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

GEORGE BARBEE LP

Head officer

HERMINIO TORRES

Managing agent

C&C APARTMENT MANAGEMENT

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

1 BREVOORT PLACEBROOKLYN 1 SPENCER PLACEBROOKLYN 105 QUINCY STREETBROOKLYN 1077 BEDFORD AVENUEBROOKLYN 1110 FULTON STREETBROOKLYN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2005-06-16 · $4

Most recent mortgage2005-12-22 · $247,302

Mortgage2005-12-22$247,302

borrower GEORGE BARBEE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP · lender THE CITY OF NEW YORK, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND

Mortgage2005-06-16$4,771,898

borrower GEORGE BARBEE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP · lender DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION, THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Sale2005-06-16$4

CITY OF NEW YORK BY THE → GEORGE BARBEE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, SHABAZZ, ABU-KARREIM

Sale1976-04-30no recorded price

FINANCE ADMINS CITYNY → CITY OF NEW YORK

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