119-37 Metropolitan Avenue

Queens, NY

BBL 4-09230-0066BIN 4192752Plain-text version

Concern level2 of 4

Moderate

012 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 48 apartments
021 of those issued in the last 3 years
031 active DOB violation(s)
042 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.

Rent regulation

Likely rent-stabilized

The owner registered 96 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 96 apartments.

2018 — 96 units registered2023 — 96

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.

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Rent regulation

The building

1925

Built

Floors

Residential units

Elevator apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building25 others linked to the same owner

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

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 6CIssued 2025-11-17

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF SCALDING HOT WATER EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE TEMPERATURE OF 130 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AT ALL HOT WATER FIXTURES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 6C, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION AT EAST

Status: Certified late

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 3QIssued 2019-02-085+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2018 ADMIN. CODE: ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 3Q, 3rd STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH , SECTION ''A''

Status: Defect letter issued

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 6OIssued 2010-01-215+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005 HMC:TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF MOLD ... AT CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 6O, 6th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 4MIssued 2008-06-195+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2045 ADM CODE REPAIR OR REPLACE THE SMOKE DETECTOR INOPERATIVE 4 STY APT 4M TENANT JIMENEZ. , SECTION '' ''

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

192

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water183

Unsanitary Condition4

Water Leak3

Electric2

Heat/Hot WaterEntire Building2026-10-17 · closed

ElectricLighting2026-08-16 · closed

Water LeakHeavy Flow2026-08-16 · closed

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

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

354

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential273

Unspecified27

Vehicle25

Street/Sidewalk21

Commercial7

House of Worship1

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

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony16

Misdemeanor34

Violation20

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

2024–20250 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.

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 · AEUHAZ1-FAIL TO CERTIFY CLASS 1 NONE2023-10-04

FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION

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.

ConstructionClass 22026-01-07$1,250 penalty

ConstructionClass 12023-01-27$2,500 penalty

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2024-04-04Apt 4Eresidential

2018-07-17Apt 1Eresidential

2018-07-05Apt 3Dresidential

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 2020-12-14

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2020-11-17

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2010-08-16

Access Warrant - Non-Lead

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

KEW MET LLC

Head officer

LEONARD ZANGAS

Managing agent

LEONARD ZANGAS

25 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.

102-21 63 ROADQUEENS 124 WEST 72 STREETMANHATTAN 128 WEST 72 STREETMANHATTAN 141-02 79 AVENUEQUEENS 141-12 78 AVENUEQUEENS

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale1996-09-11 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage2022-01-14 · $1,551,753.13

Mortgage2022-01-14$1,551,753.13

borrower KEW-MET LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2018-05-31$2,504,602.18

borrower KEW-MET LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2011-06-28$340,466.65

borrower KEW-MET LLC · lender THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF WILLIAMSBURGH

Mortgage2004-06-04$959,279.52

borrower KEW-MET LLC · lender THE DIMES SAVINGS BANK OF WILLIAMSBURGH

Mortgage2002-01-11$923,724.26

borrower KEW-MET LLC · lender DIME SVGS BANK OF WILLIAMSBURGH

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