No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.
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.
Bedbug history
No bedbugs reported
The owner filed 2 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.
311 complaints from tenants
No 311 housing complaints on record for this building.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
7
Open now
40
On record
2
Open Class C
5
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.
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2019-08-085+ YRS OLD
§ 27-2033 ADM CODE POST NOTICE, IN FORM APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT, STATING THE NAME AND LOCATION OF THE PERSON DESIGNATED BY THE OWNER TO HAVE KEY TO BUILDINGS HEATING SYSTEM MISSING AT PUBLIC HALL, 1st STORY
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2RIssued 2019-07-225+ YRS OLD
HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2R, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2019-08-085+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING
§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ILLEGAL FASTENING CONSISTING OF CHAIN AND PADLOCK INSTALLED ON GATE IN THE EAST AT FIRE PASSAGE WAY
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2019-08-085+ YRS OLD
§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE AND DEPT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. REMOVE THE ENCUMBRANCE OBSTRUCTING EGRESS FROM FIRE ESCAPES CONSISTING OF FLOWER POTS ON THE 2ND AND 3RD STORY BALCONIES, BUILDING SIDE AT SOUTH AT FIRE ESCAPE
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
Unpaid city fines
No DOB/ECB violations on record for this building.
Evictions
No executed evictions on record for this building.
Concern level3 of 4
High
012 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 3 apartments
022 open rent-impairing violation(s)
0312 active DOB violation(s)
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 DOB 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.
DOB building violations
12
Active
16
On record
2
Active, last 3 yrs
ACTIVE · LBLVIO-LOW PRESSURE BOILER BOILER REQUIRED2025-11-14
VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2024 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION
ACTIVE · LBLVIO-LOW PRESSURE BOILER BOILER REQUIRED2024-09-23
VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2023 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION
ACTIVE · LBLVIO-LOW PRESSURE BOILER BOILER REQUIRED2023-06-30
VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2020 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION
Landlord and related buildings
Managing agent
RAPHAEL CATON
No other buildings found sharing this building's registered contact.
This building and the landlord's others
This building
Rent regulation
Likely rent-stabilized
The owner registered 6 stabilized units with New York State for 2019 — essentially all of the building's 6 apartments.
18
19
2018 — 6 units registered2019 — 6
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.
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.
Ownership & money
6
Recorded sales
7
Mortgages / refinances
Last recorded sale2016-09-21 · no recorded price
Most recent mortgage2005-10-26 · $388,500
Sale2016-09-21no recorded price
CATON, RAPHAEL, CATON, CYNTHIA → 138 EAST 55TH STREET LLC
PIERRE-ANTOINE, RAYNAUD, PIERRE-ANTOINE, MARIE J → CATON, RAPHAEL, CATON, CYNTHIA
Mortgage1998-11-05$15,000
borrower ANTOINE, RAYNAUD PIERRE · lender WILLIAMSON, HYACINTH
Mortgage1998-11-05$168,000
borrower ANTOINE, RAYNAUD PIERRE · lender GREENPOINT BANK
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.
Neighborhood noise
Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
729
Noise reports · last 12 mo
61
≈ per month
56
% from neighbors
Residential409
Street/Sidewalk224
Unspecified47
Commercial37
Vehicle12
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.