1,755 recorded events, 1969–2026, from 17 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 589 HPD complaints, 426 311 service requests, 316 HPD housing violations.
Full record, year by year Support this site
| Open HPD violations | 79 total — 34 class C (immediately hazardous), 20 class B, 25 class A. Oldest open since 2017-10-06. |
| Pending HPD litigation | 4 case(s) pending in housing court |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
60 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2023–24: 12 · winter 2025–26: 33). Repeated winter clusters suggest a chronic heating problem.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
$64,980 in enforcement penalties imposed (ECB/OATH) in the last three years.
121 service requests in the last three years. Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (27) · Graffiti (10) · General Construction/Plumbing (9) · Real Time Enforcement (8) · Illegal Parking (6) · Street Condition (6).
$253,470 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (3 filings with a declared cost) — a rough measure of how actively the owner maintains the building. Permit costs cover filed construction work only — they do not capture routine maintenance or repairs done without a permit.
| Registered owner(s) | 125 BOWERY INC |
| Head officer | SZE YIN TAM |
| Managing agent | SZE YIN TAM |
| Last registered | 2023-12-05 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3,336,000 | $1,501,200 |
| 2026 | $3,500,000 | $1,575,000 |
| 2027 | $5,840,000 | $2,628,000 |
The city's market estimate has risen 75% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Heating fuel | NO2FUEL |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go Believe Bakery | Chinese | B | Mice evidence |
| Ming Kee Kitchen | Chinese | A | Mice evidence |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
2 restaurants · 2 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
3 Food Establishment complaints to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Bare Hands in Contact w/ Food, Food Contaminated, Food Spoiled), shared by 2 restaurants · complaints filed by the public; DOHMH investigates, outcomes aren't published.
Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).
Not in a hurricane evacuation zone.
Not in the city's stormwater (cloudburst) flood maps under any modeled scenario.
1 street-flooding or sewer-backup complaints at this address since 2011 (0 in the last three years).
Sources: FEMA flood maps (coastal), NYC DEP Stormwater Flood Maps (cloudburst), NYC hurricane evacuation zones, and 311 records for this address.
| Subway | Grand St — B D · 200 ft straight-line (about a 1-minute walk) · station accessibility: none Bowery — J Z · 700 ft straight-line (about a 4-minute walk) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: Bowery / Grand St — M103 · 150 ft |
| Citi Bike | Forsyth St & Grand St · 450 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| Bike facility | Protected bike path mapped within 75 ft |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman Middle: M.S. 131. Confirm with the DOE's school search. |
Distances are straight-line, not walking routes. Transit locations from the MTA and Citi Bike, bike facilities from NYC DOT, school zones from the DOE's 2024–25 maps.
237 Grand Street
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
121 311 service requests from this address in the last three years.
311 will ask for the address, the apartment if the problem is inside, and what's wrong. Contact details are optional for most complaints; food-poisoning reports can be anonymous. Complaints appear in the city's public 311 data, usually within a day or two, and then in the Live from 311 box on this page.
Most recent mortgage recorded against this lot: $880,000 on 1998-03-30 (lender: Cardone, Robert and Schiffino, Dorothy). Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-03-30 | Mortgage $880,000 — from 125 BOWERY INC. to SCHIFFINO, PAUL M.; SCHIFFINO, DOROTHY; CARDONE, ROBERT | $880,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 4 | 63 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 4 | 53 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 11 | 100 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 6 | 47 |
| 2021 | 0 | 5 | 66 | 4 | 75 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 6 | 60 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 92 | 4 | 97 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 23 |
| 2025 | 1 | 14 | 109 | 12 | 136 |
| 2026 | 1 | 63 | 145 | 7 | 216 |
Every one of the 1,755 recorded events, 1969–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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