1259 St Marks Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

BBL 3-01356-0075BIN 3430508Plain-text version

Concern level1 of 4

Low

01No open hazardous violations found

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

Not on the rent-stabilized list

Not found in the DOF tax-bill records nor the 2024 DHCR registered building list. Absence isn't proof a unit is unregulated — buildings can be missing or newly deregulated.

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

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This building and the landlord's others

This building

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.

No open HPD violations.

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water1

Unsanitary Condition1

Water Leak1

Water LeakSlow Leak2026-09-01 · closed

Heat/Hot WaterApartment Only2026-08-27 · closed

Unsanitary ConditionMold2021-12-02 · closed

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

629

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential524

Unspecified38

Street/Sidewalk38

Vehicle17

Commercial12

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

Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

462

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony115

Misdemeanor244

Violation103

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 annual bedbug report on file. Owners of buildings with three or more apartments must file one each year — its absence can mean a smaller building, or an owner that has not filed.

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.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

Lost by default

These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

No marshal-executed evictions on record for this building. Eviction cases filed in court but not carried out aren't included.

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.

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

1259 ST MARKS LLC

Head officer

Joel Mendlovits

Managing agent

Moses Rabinovitz

No other buildings found sharing this building's registered contact.

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Speculation watch

·Changed hands in 2025 — new owners sometimes move to raise rents or deregulate units

A pattern, not a prediction — many transfers are ordinary or between related companies.

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2025-02-07 · $1,800,000

Most recent mortgage2025-09-12 · $5,202,622

Mortgage2025-09-12$5,202,622

borrower 1259 ST MARKS LLC · lender POPULAR BANK

Mortgage2025-09-12$1,047,378

borrower 1259 ST MARKS LLC · lender POPULAR BANK

Sale2025-02-07$1,800,000

BASDEO GANNESS, AS SURVIVING TENANT OF THE, GANNESS, INDIVIDUALLY, BASDEO → 1259 ST MARKS LLC

Mortgage2006-12-08$191,275

borrower GANNESS, BASDEO, GANNESS, ANNETTE · lender BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Mortgage1999-12-23$191,250

borrower GANNESS, BASDEO · lender PARKWAY MORTGAGE

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.