# 289 East 53 Street, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3046790054/289-east-53-street-brooklyn).
BBL 3046790054 · BIN 3102268 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 11 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 2 apartments
- 8 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 22 stabilized units for 2023, of about 22 apartments.
Receives the J-51 tax benefit.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1931, 3 floors, 22 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

28 open (class C immediately hazardous: 11, class B hazardous: 16, class A non-hazardous: 1); 207 on record.
8 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); 8 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

1 active of 6 on record; 0 decided by default; $270 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

5 in the last 12 months; 96 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (20), HEAT/HOT WATER (18), SAFETY (15), PLUMBING (10), GENERAL (8).

## Bedbugs

5 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

1 executed in the last 3 years; 5 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

6 cases on record, 0 open, 6 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## City debt and tax-lien sale

On a tax-lien sale list in 2019 (60-day notice).

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 281 PLAZA LLC
- Agent: 281 PLAZA LLC
- HeadOfficer: ABE BETESH
- Officer: ABE BETESH
- Shareholder: ABE BETESH
- Shareholder: ABRAHAM LANIADO
- SiteManager: MARK BOWEN

The same owner is linked to 43 other buildings (ABE BETESH at 6701 BAY PARKWAY).

## 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/3046790054/289-east-53-street-brooklyn