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.
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The owner registered 8 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 8 apartments.
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2018 — 7 units registered2023 — 8
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.
The owner filed 6 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.
DOB building violations
OATH/ECB violations and fines
Evictions
Housing court
Landlord and related buildings
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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
3
Open now
13
On record
0
Open Class C
2
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. 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 I · NON-HAZARDOUS
§ 27-2142 ADM CODE APTS HAVE BEEN VACATED BY THIS DEPARTMENT AND CANNOT BE REOCCUPIED UNTIL SO ORDERED AFTER PROOF OF COMPLIANCE FOR APTS CELLAR APARTMENT #1A AT EAST, BY FRIDAY, NOVEMEBER 8TH, 2019, VACATE #150605
Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix
CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 1AIssued 2019-10-162 violations5+ YRS OLD
§ 300, 301, 302, M/D LAW FILE PLANS AND OBTAIN A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY TO LEGALIZE THE FOLLOWING ALTERATION OR RESTORE PREMISES TO PRIOR LEGAL CONDITION MEDICAL OFFICE CONVERTED INTO A CLASS A APARTMENT INCREASING THE OCCUPANCY OF THE BUILDING FROM 7 TO 8 APARTMENTS CONTRARY TO C/O LOCATED AT CELLAR APT 1A, CELLAR APT AT EAST
§ 27-2081 ADM CODE DISCONTINUE USE OF ROOMS FOR LIVING, DISCONNECT PLUMBING FIXTURES AND PROPERLY SEAL PIPE CONNECTIONS WATER CLOSET WASH BASIN BATHTUB AND SINK LOCATED AT CELLAR APT 1A, CELLAR APT AT EAST
Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.
Neighborhood noise
Higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
433
Noise reports · last 12 mo
36
≈ per month
54
% from neighbors
Residential233
Unspecified79
Vehicle55
Street/Sidewalk35
Park19
Commercial10
House of Worship1
Helicopter1
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 crime
About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
202
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
17
≈ per month
Felony61
Misdemeanor111
Violation30
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.
DOB building violations
1
Active
4
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.
ACTIVE · LL6291-LOCAL LAW 62/91 - BOILERS BOILER REQUIRED1994-06-07
OATH/ECB violations and fines
$0
Balance due (active)
0
Active violations
0
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.
Evictions
1
Executed, all time
0
Last 3 years
2018-10-12Apt 2-Aresidential
Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.
Housing court: repair & harassment cases
No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.
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.
Landlord and related buildings
Registered owner
SKILLMAN GROVE LLC
Head officer
HARRY OTTERMAN
Managing agent
NORCOR MANAGEMENT
9 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
HWANG, GRACE MEI-YING, HWANG, GERALD CHI-LIN → GREEN GARDEN CORP
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.