120 Grove Street

Brooklyn, NY

BBL 3-03323-0017BIN 3342269Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

0132 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 32 apartments
0213 of those issued 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 32 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 32 apartments.

2018 — 32 units registered2023 — 32

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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Rent regulation

The building

1932

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building92 others linked to the same owner

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

557

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 2 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 14Issued 2025-03-26

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 14, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Defect letter issued

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 7Issued 2024-12-172 violations

§ 27-2056.7 ADM CODE: CORRECT FAILURE TO PROVIDE TO THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN 45 DAYS OF DEMAND ALL RECORDS REQUIRED TO BE MAINTAINED BY OWNER PURSUANT TO LOCAL LAW 1 OF 2004 RELATED TO LEAD-BASED PAINT NOTICES, INSPECTIONS AND REMEDIATION/ABATEMENT ACTIVITIES.
§ 27-2056.4 ADM CODE- CORRECT FAILURE TO NOTIFY OCCUPANTS AND/OR TO INVESTIGATE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS.

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 7Issued 2024-01-05

§ 27-2056.7, 27-2056.8, 27-2056.9 ADM CODE -CERTIFY COMPLIANCE WITH LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD CONTROL REQUIREMENTS DURING PERIOD OF UNIT VACANCY BY PERFORMING ACTIVITIES NECESSARY TO ABATE TESTED LEAD-BASED PAINT FROM REQUIRED WINDOW AND/OR DOOR FRICTION SURFACES FOR APARTMENT AND MAKE FLOORS SMOOTH AND CLEANABLE, POSITIVE LEAD-BASED PAINT IN AN APARTMENT WITH A CHILD UNDER SIX LOCATED AT APT 7, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 7Issued 2024-01-042 violations

§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) BASEBOARD AT WEST WALL, 1st DOOR FRAME FROM NORTH AT EAST WALL, 1st WINDOW FRAME FROM SOUTH AT WEST WALL IN THE 3rd ROOM FROM EAST AT SOUTH LOCATED AT APT 7, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) CEILING, 1st DOOR FRAME FROM EAST AT SOUTH WALL, NORTH WALL, EAST WALL IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM EAST AT NORTH LOCATED AT APT 7, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Defect letter issued

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

565

All time

Last 12 months

Unsanitary Condition144

Door/Window82

Paint/Plaster66

Heat/Hot Water57

Plumbing49

Flooring/Stairs34

General31

Water Leak27

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

690

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential384

Street/Sidewalk225

Vehicle34

Unspecified27

Commercial9

Park6

House of Worship4

Helicopter1

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

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

225

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony80

Misdemeanor109

Violation36

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

Bedbug history

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.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2019-05-23Apt 14residential

2017-04-03Apt 9residential

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 2023-08-04

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2022-04-07

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2021-06-16

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2019-07-16

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.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

CASA PASIVA HDFC

Head officer

David Galabya

Managing agent

RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

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

10 FORREST STREETBROOKLYN 111 LINDEN STREETBROOKLYN 1116 WILLOUGHBY AVENUEBROOKLYN 1126 WILLOUGHBY AVENUEBROOKLYN 113 LINDEN STREETBROOKLYN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Speculation watch

·Bought and resold within a few years — rapid turnover is a common speculation signal

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

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2019-06-20 · $271,250

Most recent mortgage2024-04-12 · $2,747,654

Mortgage2024-04-12$2,747,654

borrower CASA PASIVA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION, CASA PASIVA LLC · lender THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Mortgage2019-06-20$25,000,000

borrower CASA PASIVA LLC, CASA PASIVA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION · lender NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

Mortgage2019-06-20$3,252,346

borrower CASA PASIVA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION, CASA PASIVA LLC · lender THE CITY OF NEW YORK, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS DE

Mortgage2019-06-20$3,041,641

borrower CASA PASIVA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION, CASA PASIVA LLC · lender RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC.

Mortgage2019-06-20$1,454,214

borrower CASA PASIVA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION, CASA PASIVA LLC · lender COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORP.

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

Flagged for the 2021 tax-lien sale

The owner owes enough in property taxes (and possibly water charges) to be listed for the city's tax-lien sale (most recently a 10-day notice). A listing can still be cured by paying or entering a payment plan.

Years listed

2021

Most recent

10-day noticeincl. property tax2021-12-03

30-day noticeincl. property tax2021-11-10

60-day noticeincl. property tax2021-10-18

90-day noticeincl. property tax2021-09-13

From DOF lien-sale lists (2019–2025). Financial distress is not proof of neglect, but owners behind on what they owe the city more often let repairs slide. Debt may since have been paid.

City debt & tax-lien sale