Arash Merabi
Arash Merabi is listed in NYC building registrations or deeds for 17 buildings. Brix tracks 795 open violations across the buildings listed below, with an adjusted rating of concerning.
What the record shows
Arash Merabi holds 17 buildings with a current record and 795 open violations between them. The weight is not even: 511 West 147 Street accounts for 20% of it, while zero of the 17 have nothing open at all. Tenants filed 1,086 complaints against these buildings in the last 12 months, spread across the portfolio rather than sitting in one address.
Where the buildings are 13 of the 17 buildings with a current record — 76% — are in Bronx, with the rest spread across one other borough. Manhattan accounts for 4.
How the violations are distributed Open violations are not spread evenly across these buildings. 511 West 147 Street alone carries 160 of them — 20% of everything open across the buildings with a current record — and four buildings hold half of the total. Behind it sit 2232 Davidson Avenue with 119 and 2734 Sedgwick Avenue with 73.
Violations per apartment Across 561 apartments the portfolio runs 1.42 open violations per unit. ten buildings average at least one open violation for every apartment in them.
What tenants called in Tenants filed 1,086 complaints against these buildings in the last 12 months, or 1.94 per apartment. The heaviest was 50 West 182 Street with 138. Complaints and violations are separate records — a complaint that closed without an inspector getting inside leaves no violation behind it.
Age of the stock The median building here went up in 1926, and 16 of 17 predate 1960. Pre-1960 buildings carry lead-paint and window-guard obligations that newer stock does not, which shapes what turns up in an inspection.
How long things stay open The longest-standing open item in the portfolio is at 515 West 147 Street and has been open 4.0 years. An old open violation is not a paperwork lag — it is a condition the city recorded and has not been shown to be corrected.
What has moved in the last two years 2,166 violations were written against these buildings in the last 24 months. 1,581 of them — 73% — have since been cleared, and 585 are still open. That ratio moves between city sweeps, which is why a standing total on its own says less than it looks like it does.
How buildings are linked: by HPD registration, deed, or a confirmed parent company. Being named as a head officer or managing agent is not the same as owning.