# 551 West 149 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1020810010/551-west-149-street-manhattan).
BBL 1020810010 · BIN 1062082 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 10 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 2 apartments
- 2 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 2 active DOB violation(s)

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 19 stabilized units for 2023, of about 22 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 22, 2019: 19, 2020: 20, 2022: 20, 2023: 19.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1910, 5 floors, 22 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

22 open (class C immediately hazardous: 10, class B hazardous: 9, class A non-hazardous: 3); 244 on record.
2 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

2 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 16 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

0 active of 6 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

17 in the last 12 months; 110 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (56), UNSANITARY CONDITION (14), PLUMBING (8), PAINT/PLASTER (7), GENERAL (6).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

0 executed in the last 3 years; 0 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

5 cases on record, 0 open, 5 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 551 west realty LLC
- Agent: BRIAN DULITZ
- HeadOfficer: Brian DUlitz

## 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/1020810010/551-west-149-street-manhattan