475 East 137 Street

Bronx, NY

BBL 2-02282-0045BIN 2114797Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

018 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 12 apartments
027 of those issued in the last 3 years
031 open rent-impairing violation(s)
041 eviction executed 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 20 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 12 apartments.

2018 — 20 units registered2023 — 20

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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The building

1974

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building2 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. This tax lot has 3 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2Issued 2026-02-02

§ 27-2029 ADMIN. CODE: PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF HEAT FOR THE APARTMENT IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 473SIssued 2025-08-29

§ 27-2005 ADMIN. CODE: PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE VINYL FLOOR TILES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 473S, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 477SIssued 2024-10-02

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF RODENTS RATS IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 477S, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt FIssued 2023-04-14

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT F, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Defect letter issued

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

114

All time

Last 12 months

Unsanitary Condition31

Heat/Hot Water17

Paint/Plaster15

Plumbing13

Door/Window10

General7

Flooring/Stairs7

Electric7

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

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

699

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential377

Street/Sidewalk189

Commercial58

Vehicle52

Unspecified20

House of Worship2

Park1

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. 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

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

799

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony264

Misdemeanor410

Violation125

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 50 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.

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.

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2026-07-06Apt Sresidential

Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.

Evictions

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

Cases on record

Open now

Tenant-brought

Harassment found

With a judgment

Most cases are tenants taking the owner to court to force repairs. A case is not proof of wrongdoing; a harassment finding or judgment is a court ruling against the owner.

CLOSEDOpened 2012-12-17

Tenant action

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.

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

Plaza Borinquen 88 Owner, LP

Head officer

Alexander Vitro

Managing agent

Winn Management Company LLC

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

423 EAST 137 STREETBRONX 476F EAST 139 STREETBRONX

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2012-02-29 · $6,100,000

Most recent mortgage2014-06-06 · $6,749,331

Mortgage2014-06-06$6,749,331

borrower PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER II LP, PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CO. · lender NEW YORK CITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Mortgage2014-06-06$5,850,669

borrower PLAZA BORINQUEN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY, PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER II LP · lender NEW YORK CITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Mortgage2014-06-06$1,920,000

borrower PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER II LP, PLAZA BORINQUEN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY · lender NEW YORK CITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Mortgage2014-06-06$4,250,669

borrower PLAZA BORINQUEN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY, PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER II LP · lender PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER LP

Mortgage2014-06-06$332,256

borrower PLAZA BORINQUEN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY, PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER II LP · lender PLAZA BORINQUEN 88 OWNER LP

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.