# 496 East 189 Street, Bronx, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/2030580018/496-east-189-street-bronx).
BBL 2030580018 · BIN 2011774 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: severe

- 26 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 30 apartments
- 26 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 5 open rent-impairing 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 30 stabilized units for 2023, of about 30 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 30, 2019: 29, 2020: 29, 2021: 29, 2022: 29, 2023: 30.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1913, 5 floors, 30 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

98 open (class C immediately hazardous: 26, class B hazardous: 55, class A non-hazardous: 17); 425 on record.
26 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
5 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

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

## 311 housing complaints

89 in the last 12 months; 395 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (112), PAINT/PLASTER (52), UNSANITARY CONDITION (51), PLUMBING (43), DOOR/WINDOW (35).

## Bedbugs

8 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units. A filing has reported re-infestation.

## Evictions

1 executed in the last 3 years; 9 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

9 cases on record, 0 open, 8 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: SCG 496, LLC.
- Agent: SCG 496, LLC.
- HeadOfficer: JOSEPH SOLEIMANI
- SiteManager: JULIO LORA

The same owner is linked to 60 other buildings (JOSEPH SOLEIMANI at 11 GRACE AVENUE).

## 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/2030580018/496-east-189-street-bronx