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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.
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.
Rent regulation
Likely rent-stabilized
The owner registered 82 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — of about 540 apartments.
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2018 — 107 units registered2023 — 82
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.
Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.
Ownership & money
No recorded sales or mortgages found in ACRIS for this lot.
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.
Neighborhood crime
About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
157
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
13
≈ per month
Felony47
Misdemeanor84
Violation26
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.
Landlord and related buildings
Registered owner
MEADOWWOOD AT GATEWAY
Head officer
SAUL FRIEDMAN
Managing agent
SAUL FRIEDMAN
13 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.
Heat/Hot WaterApartment Only2026-10-17 · closed
Door/WindowWindow Frame2026-10-13 · closed
Water LeakDamp Spot2026-10-13 · closed
DOB building violations
0
Active
13
On record
0
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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
0
Open now
3
On record
0
Open Class C
0
Open Class B
0
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. This tax lot has 19 buildings; these counts are for this building only.
No open HPD violations.
This building and the landlord's others
This building13 others linked to the same owner
Neighborhood noise
Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
227
Noise reports · last 12 mo
19
≈ per month
51
% from neighbors
Residential115
Commercial73
Street/Sidewalk27
Unspecified9
Vehicle3
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.
Housing court: repair & harassment cases
48
Cases on record
0
Open now
43
Tenant-brought
0
Harassment found
0
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 2026-07-01
Harassment case
CLOSEDOpened 2025-09-23
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2025-05-01
Heat / hot water
CLOSEDOpened 2025-02-07
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.
Concern level3 of 4
High
0144 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 12 apartments
0217 of those issued in the last 3 years
036 open rent-impairing violation(s)
046 evictions 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.
