Mendel Gold
Mendel Gold is listed in NYC building registrations or deeds for 21 buildings. Brix tracks 499 open violations across the buildings listed below, with an adjusted rating of concerning.
What the record shows
Mendel Gold holds 21 buildings with a current record and 499 open violations between them. The weight is not even: 1097 Prospect Place accounts for 55% of it, while four of the 21 have nothing open at all. Tenant complaints run the same way — 63 in the last 12 months, 21% of them from 264 Sullivan Place alone.
Where the buildings are All 21 buildings sit in Brooklyn. 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. 1097 Prospect Place alone carries 274 of them — 55% of everything open across the buildings with a current record — and one building holds half of the total. Behind it sit 397 Linden Street with 74 and 1040 Union Street with 22.
Violations per apartment Across 142 apartments the portfolio runs 3.51 open violations per unit. 14 buildings average at least one open violation for every apartment in them.
The split inside the portfolio 4 of the 21 buildings with a current record have nothing open against them today, while 17 do. Portfolio-level averages hide that split, which is why the list is worth reading one row at a time.
What tenants called in Tenants filed 63 complaints against these buildings in the last 12 months, or 0.44 per apartment. The heaviest was 264 Sullivan Place with 13. 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 1931, and 13 of 21 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 140 Stanhope 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 215 violations were written against these buildings in the last 24 months. 40 of them — 19% — have since been cleared, and 175 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.