HPD placed this building in its Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP Round 18), active since 2025-01-31. AEP is the city's response to its most distressed buildings — it had 583 open B/C violations at selection.
The building
1925
Built
4
Floors
32
Residential units
Walk-up apartments
Type
Rent regulation
Likely rent-stabilized
The owner registered 32 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 32 apartments.
18
19
20
21
22
23
2018 — 32 units registered2023 — 32
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.
Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.
DOB building violations
1
Active
8
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 · EGRADE-FAILURE TO POST ENERGY GRADE/SCORE NONE2021-12-01
FAILURE TO DISPLAY ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCORE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRADE AS PER ADCODE SEC. 28-309.12.3
Housing court: repair & harassment cases
6
Cases on record
0
Open now
4
Tenant-brought
0
Harassment found
0
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 2025-01-03
Heat / hot water
CLOSEDOpened 2022-07-07
Access Warrant - Non-Lead
CLOSEDOpened 2020-09-18
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2013-01-31
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.
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
0
Infested, latest filing
7
Annual filings
2024–20250 infested · 0 eradicated
2023–20240 infested · 0 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.
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.
311 complaints from tenants
314
All time
17
Last 12 months
Heat/Hot Water129
Unsanitary Condition48
Paint/Plaster33
Water Leak22
Door/Window16
Plumbing14
Flooring/Stairs13
General12
Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.
PlumbingRadiator2026-10-06 · open
Unsanitary ConditionGarbage/Recycling Storage2026-06-04 · open
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.
Landlord and related buildings
Registered owner
37-40 81ST STREET, LLC
Head officer
MARGARET BRUNN
Managing agent
BRIAN GARLAND
97 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
01On HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program — the city's most-distressed-buildings list
0217 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 32 apartments
0311 of those issued in the last 3 years
042 open rent-impairing violation(s)
051 active DOB violation(s)
063 evictions executed in the last 3 years
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.
HPD housing-maintenance violations
41
Open now
574
On record
17
Open Class C
11
Open Class B
12
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
§27-2153 ADM CODE THE PREMISES HAS BEEN SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ALTERNATIVE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM WHICH MAY RESULT IN BUILDING-WIDE INSPECTIONS, FEES, AND EXTENSIVE REPAIR WORK TO CORRECT VIOLATIONS AND UNDERLYING CONDITIONS. CHARGES FOR REPAIR WORK DONE PURSUANT TO THIS ORDER, IF NOT PAID, WILL BECOME LIENS ON THE PROPERTY
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2026-05-26RENT-IMPAIRING
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE ROOF SO THAT IT WILL NOT LEAK OVER CEILING AT BULKHEAD AND WEST WALL , SECTION ''A''
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2026-02-182 violations
§ 27-2056.4 ADM CODE- CORRECT FAILURE TO NOTIFY OCCUPANTS AND/OR TO INVESTIGATE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS.
§ 27-2056.4(H) AND 27-2056.17 ADM CODE -CORRECT FAILURE TO PROVIDE TO THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN 45 DAYS OF DEMAND ALL RECORDS REQUIRED TO BE MAINTAINED BY OWNER PURSUANT TO LOCAL LAW 1 OF 2004 RELATED TO LEAD-BASED PAINT NOTICES, INSPECTIONS AND REMEDIATION/ABATEMENT ACTIVITIES.
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt B8Issued 2025-12-234 violations
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT B8, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION ''WEST'' · Landlord hasn't certified a fix
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) WEST WALL, 1st WINDOW FRAME FROM NORTH AT EAST WALL IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT B8, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION ''WEST'' · Defect letter issued
2 more from the same inspection
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) 1st DOOR FRAME FROM SOUTH AT WEST WALL IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT B8, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION ''WEST'' · Defect letter issued
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) 1st DOOR FROM WEST AT NORTH WALL, 1st DOOR FRAME FROM WEST AT NORTH WALL IN THE FOYER LOCATED AT APT B8, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION ''WEST'' · Defect letter issued
This building and the landlord's others
This building97 others linked to the same owner
Ownership & money
7
Recorded sales
11
Mortgages / refinances
Last recorded sale2013-12-05 · $5,663,030
Most recent mortgage2013-12-05 · $3,375,000
Sale2013-12-05$5,663,030
QPI-XVII LLC → 37-40 81ST STREET, LLC
Mortgage2013-12-05$3,375,000
borrower 37-40 81ST STREET, LLC · lender SIGNATURE 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 higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
1331
Noise reports · last 12 mo
111
≈ per month
25
% from neighbors
Commercial419
Residential331
Vehicle284
Street/Sidewalk251
Unspecified45
Helicopter1
311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about outdoor noise (mostly commercial) — street life and traffic more than neighbors. 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.
