# 542 East 138 Street, Bronx, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/2022650042/542-east-138-street-bronx).
BBL 2022650042 · BIN 2000045 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: severe

- 16 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 9 apartments
- 7 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 16 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 4 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 8 stabilized units for 2023, of about 9 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 7, 2019: 8, 2020: 8, 2021: 8, 2022: 8, 2023: 8.
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, 9 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

182 open (class C immediately hazardous: 16, class B hazardous: 120, class A non-hazardous: 46); 209 on record.
7 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
16 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

4 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 8 on record.

## 311 housing complaints

17 in the last 12 months; 47 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (9), PAINT/PLASTER (8), DOOR/WINDOW (7), FLOORING/STAIRS (7), HEAT/HOT WATER (6).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

1 cases on record, 0 open, 1 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: HHRMC FOR ERIC J OPPENHEIMER RECEIVER
- HeadOfficer: ERIC OPPENHEIMER
- Officer: ERIC OPPENHEIMER
- SiteManager: Carlo Bilbao
- Agent: Carlo Bilbao

The same owner is linked to 1 other building (ERIC OPPENHEIMER at 428 CENTRAL AVE).

## 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/2022650042/542-east-138-street-bronx