Emerald Equity Group

Emerald Equity Group is a New York City landlord operating 30 buildings. Brix tracks 1,513 open violations across the buildings listed below, with an adjusted rating of concerning.

What the record shows

Emerald Equity Group holds 30 buildings with a current record and 1,513 open violations between them. The weight is not even: 421 East 114 Street accounts for 11% of it, while zero of the 30 have nothing open at all. Tenants filed 1,380 complaints against these buildings in the last 12 months, spread across the portfolio rather than sitting in one address.

Where the buildings are All 30 buildings sit in Manhattan. A single-borough portfolio means one set of inspectors, one housing court, and one local complaint pattern behind every number on this page.

How the violations are distributed Open violations are not spread evenly across these buildings. 421 East 114 Street alone carries 161 of them — 11% of everything open across the buildings with a current record — and six buildings hold half of the total. Behind it sit 413 East 114 Street with 144 and 122 East 103 Street with 140.

Violations per apartment Across 689 apartments the portfolio runs 2.20 open violations per unit. 22 buildings average at least one open violation for every apartment in them.

What tenants called in Tenants filed 1,380 complaints against these buildings in the last 12 months, or 2.00 per apartment. The heaviest was 126 East 103 Street with 258. 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 1910, and 30 of 30 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 1567 Lexington Avenue 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 1,186 violations were written against these buildings in the last 24 months. 207 of them — 17% — have since been cleared, and 979 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.

View the complete portfolio, ownership org chart, and key people on Brix.