When we re-ranked New York's large portfolios by open violations this week, one entry broke the pattern. The DeMatteis Organization carries 6,303 open violations across just 3 buildings — more than portfolios twenty times its size. So we looked at where those violations actually live.

They live in one place.

One address, 95% of the problem

725 Lincoln Avenue — one of the Linden Plaza towers in East New York, Brooklyn — carries 6,002 open violations on its own. That is 95% of everything in the portfolio.

For scale: this single address has more open violations than Alma Realty's entire 152-building portfolio, which holds 4,761. It is more than most landlords accumulate across dozens of buildings over decades.

Of the open violations at the address, 1,305 are class C — the tier the city labels immediately hazardous. Another 3,827 are class B. 5,117 of the violations were filed in the city's current tracking system; the rest are a backlog migrated from the old one. Either way, they were never closed. The oldest open item dates to August 2022.

What 6,002 open violations look like up close

313 individual apartments have at least one open violation. Read top-down, the record is a tour of a building falling behind on everything at once:

  • Crumbling plaster & peeling paint
    1,083
  • Mold
    538
  • Water leaks
    501
  • Roaches
    257
  • Mice
    240
The five most common problems cited in open violations at 725 Lincoln Avenue, as of August 26, 2026. Mold combines three mold-related descriptions in the record.

Residents have filed 874 complaints in the past 12 months — more than two a day, every day, including weekends.

The company that helped build Battery Park City

This is not a story about a landlord that can't afford repairs. The DeMatteis Organization developed Gateway Plaza, the first apartments built in Battery Park City. The portfolio's third building sits in that neighborhood today — and shows zero open violations.

The second building, 671 Lincoln Avenue, is part of the same Linden Plaza complex as 725. It carries hundreds more open violations of its own.

So the same organization keeps one tower spotless while another — the one in East New York, not the one in Battery Park City — accumulates more open violations than portfolios twenty times its size. The difference between the two is not capacity. It is who lives there.

Not on the city's list

Despite the numbers, the DeMatteis Organization does not appear on the city's 2026 worst-landlord watchlist. When we audited that list against the violation record, we found 44 large portfolios with heavy violation loads that the city never named — you can read the full ranking here.

If you're considering an apartment at Linden Plaza, the building's full record is public and free to read: 725 Lincoln Avenue.