DUE TO ADJACENT PROPERTY 2517 WEST 17TH STREET HAVING APPROXIMATELY 35' OF WALL AT EXPOSURE # 4 COLLAPSE AND DISLODGED FROM FOUNDATION WALL SEVERAL JOIST FOR 2ND FLOOR COLLAPSED. POTENTIAL COLLAPSE ONTO BASEMENT OF 2521 WEST 17TH STREET
Evictions
No executed evictions on record for this building.
Housing court
No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.
The building
2008
Built
3
Floors
3
Residential units
Walk-up apartments
Type
Unpaid city fines
$0
Balance due (active)
1
Active violations
0
Lost by default
DOB violations adjudicated by OATH carry money penalties. "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.
ConstructionClass 22016-04-06$400 penalty
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.
Concern level2 of 4
Moderate
011 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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
0
Open now
11
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.
No open HPD violations.
Rent regulation
Likely rent-stabilized
The owner registered 3 stabilized units with New York State for 2018 — essentially all of the building's 3 apartments.
421-a tax benefit · expires ~2026
A 421-a building's rent stabilization is tied to this tax benefit and generally ends when it expires — here, around 2026 (approximate, from DOF exemption records). Confirm your unit's status with NYS HCR.
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.
No other buildings found sharing this building's registered contact.
This building and the landlord's others
This building
311 complaints from tenants
No 311 housing complaints on record for this building.
Bedbug history
No bedbugs reported
The owner filed 5 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.
Neighborhood crime
Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
121
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
10
≈ per month
Felony49
Misdemeanor55
Violation17
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
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.
6
Recorded sales
5
Mortgages / refinances
Last recorded sale2021-09-30 · no recorded price
Most recent mortgage2010-03-10 · $500,000
Sale2021-09-30no recorded price
CHEN, ELLA YANTING, CHEN, XING MING → CHEN, XING MING
Sale2019-03-22no recorded price
CHEN, ELLA YANTING, CHEN, XING MING → CHEN, XING MING, CHEN, ELLA YANTING
Sale2014-05-02no recorded price
CHEN, YAN TING, CHEN, ELLA YANTING → CHEN, ELLA YANTING, CHEN, XING MING
Sale2010-03-10$997,885
WEST 17TH DEV LLC → DENG, XIAO YU, CHEN, XING MING, CHEN, YAN TING, DENG, DA FENG
Mortgage2010-03-10$500,000
borrower DENG, DA FENG, DENG, XIAO YU, CHEN, YAN TING, CHEN, XING MING · lender ABACUS FEDERAL SAVINGS 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
Much lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
56
Noise reports · last 12 mo
5
≈ per month
71
% from neighbors
Residential40
Unspecified5
Commercial4
Vehicle4
Street/Sidewalk3
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.