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    A four-story prewar brick apartment building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with fire escapes and bare trees along the sidewalk
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    The 570 Violations That Just Changed Hands in Crown Heights

    Three Crown Heights buildings sold at a sheriff's auction for just over $900,000 carrying 570 open violations, 387 of them written this year. The violations attach to the building, not the seller, and the new owner owns every one until they are cured.

    Weathered brick tenement buildings on a Mott Haven street in the Bronx — the kind of rent-stabilized walk-ups dominated by New York's worst-ranked landlords.
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    The 10 Worst Landlords in NYC Right Now

    We ranked every NYC landlord portfolio by open violations on the city record. These ten are the worst — and four of them appear on no official watchlist.

    The brick towers of Linden Plaza in East New York, Brooklyn, rising above street trees at a traffic light.
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    One Brooklyn Address Accounts for 95% of This Landlord's Open Violations

    The DeMatteis Organization built Battery Park City's first apartments. Three buildings remain in its portfolio — and one address in East New York carries nearly all 6,303 of its open violations.

    Every LLC, one chart.

    Big landlords hold buildings through dozens of separate companies. The org chart shows the structure; the record shows every violation and complaint underneath it.

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