Landlords & Ownership

Who actually owns the building, and how they run it.

The Record

New York City Edition 8 Stories

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.

Worst Landlords

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.

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The brick towers of Linden Plaza in East New York, Brooklyn, rising above street trees at a traffic light.

Worst Landlords

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 {{claim:dematteis-open-violations}} of its open violations.

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A row of brownstones in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where deed theft complaints are concentrated.

Tenant Rights

7 Signs Someone Is Trying to Take Your Home

Deed theft complaints to the state tripled in two years. The crime is a forged signature, a notary stamp, and a filing nobody verifies. Here are the seven things we look for in the record, and what to do about each one.

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Celebrity

A fancy UWS co-op said no, so Mariah Carey bought a condo. And it's still not in her name.

Mariah Carey has lived at 90 Franklin Street for 26 years. The deed says Franklin Views, LLC. Here is the full chain — every deed, mortgage, and consolidation — in the public record.

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Worst Landlords

30 Buildings. 30 LLCs. 1,348 Violations Still Open.

Emerald Equity Group's East Harlem portfolio is all over the news. We mapped every building, traced every LLC, and scored every one. 27 of 30 buildings rate concerning. Here's what the public record shows.

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Worst Landlords

We Looked Up Every Building in the A&E Settlement. Here's What the Public Record Shows.

On day 16 of his administration, Mayor Mamdani announced a $2.1M settlement with A&E Real Estate covering 14 buildings. We pulled every building through Brix — violations, ownership chains, court orders, all of it.

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NYC Public Advocate Worst Landlord Watchlist on a clipboard with violation records, illustrating gaps in the official ranking.

Worst Landlords

We Checked Every Building on NYC's 2026 Worst Landlord List. Here's What the City Missed.

The Public Advocate's watchlist ranks landlords one way. We ranked every portfolio in the city by open violations instead — and the two lists don't agree. Here are the nine biggest, and what each one's buildings actually look like.

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Worst Landlords

A&E Real Estate Just Paid $2.1 Million. We Looked Up Every Building.

The largest settlement in HPD Anti-Harassment Unit history covers 14 buildings. A&E manages roughly 180. We pulled the full portfolio through Brix — here's what tenants are still dealing with.

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Field notes

From the record, verbatim

Lines pulled straight from NYC housing files. Nothing embellished.