The 10 Worst Landlords in NYC Right Now

A&E isn't just at the top of this list — they're in a category of their own. The nearest competitor carries nearly 10,000 fewer open violations. The city's $2.1 million settlement in January covered 14 of their 240 buildings, which leaves 226 properties — and thousands of tenants — outside the deal. We pulled the public record for every building in that settlement. It's grim reading.

The largest portfolio on this list. No single Stellar building dominates the headlines, and that's the point: spread across 465 buildings at 27 open violations apiece, it still adds up to the second-biggest pile of unresolved hazards in the city. Scale doesn't dilute a violation. It multiplies it.

The density leader of the top three. Camber specializes in affordable-housing portfolios, which means the tenants living with those violations are the ones with the fewest alternatives.

Ninety-nine open violations per building, and nowhere on the city's watchlist. Summit is the first of four landlords in our top ten that the official list misses entirely.

Individually, each building reads as ordinary. Collectively, M&T is sitting on 7,300 unresolved hazards — more than several landlords the city does name. Also absent from the watchlist.

Another scale story: the violations are spread just thinly enough to stay under the thresholds that get a landlord named.

Three buildings. Nobody else on this list is close on density.

And it's really one building. 725 Lincoln Avenue, a sprawling Brooklyn complex, carries 6,002 open violations on its own — 95% of the entire portfolio. For the people living there, this isn't a portfolio statistic. It's the apartment.

Like Summit, M&T, and Progressive, nowhere on the official list. Piller's buildings cluster in neighborhoods where tenants have the least leverage to organize.

On the city's watchlist — one of six in our top ten that are.

Alma rounds out a top ten where the gap to everyone else is measured in the thousands.