1535 East 14 Street

Brooklyn, NY

BBL 3-06761-0075BIN 3181832Plain-text version

Concern level2 of 4

Moderate

014 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 18 apartments
024 of those issued in the last 3 years
033 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 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 71 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 71 apartments.

2018 — 71 units registered2023 — 71

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

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Rent regulation

The building

1964

Built

Floors

Residential units

Elevator apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

217

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.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 6BIssued 2025-12-18

§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE HINGES IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 6B, 6th STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2025-12-18

§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE LATCH SET AT VESTIBULE DOOR AT PUBLIC HALL

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 6EIssued 2025-11-20

§ 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE SPRING BALLANCE AT LOWER WINDOW SASH IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 6E, 6th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Certification rejected by HPD

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 1CIssued 2024-07-01

§ 27-2017.3 HMC: TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE VISIBLE MOLD CONDITION... AT CEILING AND WEST WALL. APPROX 10 SQ.FT IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 1C, 1st STORY, 5th APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST ORIGINAL VIOLATION 14674222 ISSUED 16-NOV-21 HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO CLASS C PER ADMINISTRATIVE CODE §27-2017.3a(5)(a) or (b).

Status: Defect letter issued

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

269

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water135

Unsanitary Condition44

Paint/Plaster17

Door/Window15

Water Leak12

Plumbing11

General11

Appliance10

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

Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

219

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential150

Unspecified44

Commercial12

Vehicle9

Street/Sidewalk4

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

Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

110

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony25

Misdemeanor72

Violation13

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

Infested, latest filing

Annual filings

2024–20252 infested · 2 eradicated

2023–20241 infested · 1 eradicated

2022–20230 infested · 0 eradicated

Self-reported by the owner for the year ending each filing. Counts are building-wide and do not say which apartment was affected.

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.

ACTIVE · LL1081-LOCAL LAW 10/81 - ELEVATOR ELEVATOROPTIONAL1997-01-13

ACTIVE · LL6291-LOCAL LAW 62/91 - BOILERS BOILER REQUIRED1993-08-16

DOB building 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

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2019-02-20Apt 3Bresidential

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 2016-08-22

Harassment case

CLOSEDOpened 2013-02-27

Heat / hot water

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

LANCASTER REALTY LP

Head officer

RICHARD MARSHEL

Managing agent

LANCASTER REALTY LP

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

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Most recent mortgage2023-10-24 · $72,977.1

Mortgage2023-10-24$72,977.1

borrower LANCASTER REALTY LP · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA

Mortgage2016-01-22$3,456,774.42

borrower LANCASTER REALTY LP · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA

Mortgage2013-08-09$4,201,724.6

borrower LANCASTER REALTY LP · lender JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA

Mortgage2013-08-09$8,600,000

borrower LANCASTER REALTY LP · lender JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA

Mortgage2003-10-17$2,113,201.7

borrower LANDCASTER REALTY ,L.P · lender BEAR STEARNS COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE,INC

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.

City debt & tax-lien sale