BY PAUL SCHINDLER | New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, on October 13, issued her Worst Landlords Watchlist, identifying the 100 residential property owners with the most violations — as of September 6 of this year — from the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the Department of Buildings.
The HPD violations include failure to provide self-closing public doors or adequate lighting in public areas, lack of posted Certificate of Occupancy, failure to remove vermin, and immediately hazardous violations such as inadequate fire exits, rodents, lead-based paint, and lack of heat, hot water, electricity, or gas. The DOB violations include infractions against the city’s construction code, its zoning resolution, and other applicable laws and regulations.
The chart below identifies the head officer of entities owning residential properties, that entity’s rank among the “100 worst,” the number of properties and units it owns, the total of HPD and DOB violations cited against that entity, and details on violations cited against individual properties owned by that entity in Manhattan between 42nd Street and 125th Street.
The data was provided by the Public Advocate’s Office, which compiled it from publicly available sources within city agencies.
