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
17
Cases on record
0
Open now
14
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 2026-05-04
Heat / hot water
CLOSEDOpened 2026-01-20
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2023-07-19
Tenant action
CLOSEDOpened 2018-03-19
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.
Rent regulation
Likely rent-stabilized
The owner registered 74 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 72 apartments.
18
19
20
21
22
23
2018 — 71 units registered2023 — 74
J-51 tax benefit
Rent stabilization here may be tied to a tax benefit and can end when the benefit expires.
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.
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.
City debt & tax-lien sale
Flagged for the 2025 tax-lien sale
The owner owes enough in water and sewer charges to be listed for the city's tax-lien sale (most recently a 10-day notice). A listing can still be cured by paying or entering a payment plan.
1
Years listed
2025
Most recent
10-day noticewater/sewer only2025-05-01
30-day noticewater/sewer only2025-04-01
60-day noticewater/sewer only2025-03-01
90-day noticewater/sewer only2025-02-01
From DOF lien-sale lists (2019–2025). Financial distress is not proof of neglect, but owners behind on what they owe the city more often let repairs slide. Debt may since have been paid.
The building
1950
Built
3
Floors
72
Residential units
Walk-up apartments
Type
DOB building violations
0
Active
0
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.
No active DOB violations.
Bedbug history
0
Infested, latest filing
39
Annual filings
2024–20250 infested · 0 eradicated
2024–20250 infested · 0 eradicated
2024–20250 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.
Neighborhood crime
Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
91
NYPD reports · last 12 mo
8
≈ per month
Felony25
Misdemeanor50
Violation16
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.
Concern level4 of 4
Severe
0151 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 72 apartments
0251 of those issued in the last 3 years
0312 open rent-impairing violation(s)
044 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
4
Open now
86
On record
0
Open Class C
0
Open Class B
4
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. This tax lot has 6 buildings; these counts are for this building only.
CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSIssued 2026-08-18
§ 27-2014 ADM CODE AND DEPT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. SCRAPE AND REMOVE RUST SCALES AND PAINT WITH 2 COATS OF PAINT AT BUILDING FRONT AT FIRE ESCAPE
Status: Notice issued, not yet certified
CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSIssued 2024-10-17
§ 27-2014 ADM CODE AND DEPT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. SCRAPE AND REMOVE RUST SCALES AND PAINT WITH 2 COATS OF PAINT AT NORTH STACK BUILDING FRONT AT FIRE ESCAPE
Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix
CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSIssued 2023-04-142 violations
§ 27-2014 ADM CODE AND DEPT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. SCRAPE AND REMOVE RUST SCALES AND PAINT WITH 2 COATS OF PAINT ALL COMPONENTS AND ALL STORIES AT NORTH FIRE ESCAPE, BUILDING FRONT , SECTION ''73-12''
§ 27-2014 ADM CODE AND DEPT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. SCRAPE AND REMOVE RUST SCALES AND PAINT WITH 2 COATS OF PAINT ALL COMPONENTS AT NORTH AND SOUTH STACKS AT WEST FIRE ESCAPE, ALL STORIES (BUILDING REAR) , SECTION ''73-12''
Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix
Ownership & money
11
Recorded sales
10
Mortgages / refinances
Last recorded sale2014-09-08 · $216,000,000
Most recent mortgage2019-01-31 · $8,350,130.09
Mortgage2019-01-31$8,350,130.09
borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
Sale2014-09-08$216,000,000
KEW GARDENS BAP LLC → KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC
Mortgage2014-09-08$63,360,937.3
borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
Mortgage2014-09-08$15,000,000
borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
Mortgage2011-04-07$8,044,379.78
borrower KEW GARDENS BAP LLC · lender NEW YORK COMMUNITY 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.
Landlord and related buildings
Registered owner
KEW GARDENS HILLS LLC
Head officer
DONALD HASTINGS
Managing agent
BRIAN GARLAND
69 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.
Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.
Outside BuildingRoofing2026-10-22 · open
Door/WindowDoor2026-10-22 · open
Outside BuildingPavement2026-10-22 · open
Neighborhood noise
Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks
106
Noise reports · last 12 mo
9
≈ per month
80
% from neighbors
Residential85
Unspecified12
Vehicle7
Street/Sidewalk2
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.