# 552 West 185 Street, Manhattan, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/1021570015/552-west-185-street-manhattan).
BBL 1021570015 · BIN 1063766 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 12 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 20 apartments
- 12 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 1 active DOB violation(s)
- 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 19 stabilized units for 2023, of about 20 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 19, 2019: 19, 2020: 19, 2021: 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 1920, 5 floors, 20 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

37 open (class C immediately hazardous: 12, class B hazardous: 13, class A non-hazardous: 11); 536 on record.
12 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

1 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 13 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

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

## 311 housing complaints

37 in the last 12 months; 211 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (49), HEAT/HOT WATER (48), PLUMBING (33), PAINT/PLASTER (29), DOOR/WINDOW (14).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

14 cases on record, 0 open, 12 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 552 WEST 185TH STREET ASSOCIATES LLC
- Agent: GILMAN MANAGEMENT CORP.
- HeadOfficer: ROBERT RAPHAEL
- SiteManager: RAMON SURANE

The same owner is linked to 36 other buildings (ROBERT RAPHAEL at 55 WATER MILL LANE).

## 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/1021570015/552-west-185-street-manhattan