301 recorded events, 1979–2026, from 10 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 182 311 service requests, 36 DOB permits, 27 DOB complaints.
Full record, year by year Support this site
No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
109 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Noise (66) · Lost Property (21) · Traffic (5) · Obstruction (5) · Non (3) · Sidewalk Condition (2).
$97,000 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (9 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.
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $5,990,000 | $2,695,500 |
| 2026 | $6,520,000 | $2,934,000 |
| 2027 | $6,900,000 | $3,105,000 |
The city's market estimate has risen 15% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel | Mediterranean | A | — |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
1 restaurant · 0 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
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.
No street-flooding or sewer-backup complaints on record at this address.
Sources: FEMA flood maps (coastal), NYC DEP Stormwater Flood Maps (cloudburst), NYC hurricane evacuation zones, and 311 records for this address.
| Subway | Bleecker St — 6 B D F M · 400 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: full Prince St — R W · 450 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: East Houston St / Lafayette St — M21 · 450 ft |
| Citi Bike | Lafayette St & Jersey St · 150 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. 130 Hernando De Soto 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.
281 Lafayette Street
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
109 311 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: $369,000 on 1987-08-04 (lender: First Women's Bank). Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-04 | RPTT $3,664,559 — from MEMBERS OF NEW TRADITION HOLDINGS LLC to BTO NITRO BUYER LLC | $3,664,559 | |
| 1987-08-04 | Mortgage $369,000 — from FERBER, FLORENCE to FIRST WOMEN'S BANK | $369,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 17 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 0 | 1 | 80 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 22 |
Every one of the 301 recorded events, 1979–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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