1,989 recorded events, 1900–2026, from 22 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 767 311 service requests, 649 HPD complaints, 112 HPD housing violations.
Full record, year by year Support this site
The city's published records show little recorded distress here in the last three years. More recorded distress than 59% of 100+-unit residential buildings citywide. The citywide median for 100+-unit residential buildings is 3.7 penalty points per 10 units; this building carries 6.3. In ZIP 10019, 65% of residential buildings hold an A and 4% grade D or F. How grades work
Among 4,677 100+-unit residential buildings citywide · left is less recorded distress, right is more
| Open HPD violations | 7 total — 2 class C (immediately hazardous), 5 class B, 0 class A. Oldest open since 2022-04-19. |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
49 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2023–24: 2 · winter 2024–25: 26 · winter 2025–26: 19). Repeated winter clusters suggest a chronic heating problem.
25 bedbug-infested unit(s) reported in filings over the last three years.
114 service requests in the last three years. Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (23) · Food Establishment (9) · Street Condition (8) · Homeless Person Assistance (7) · UNSANITARY CONDITION (6) · New Tree Request (5).
$2,085,886 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (36 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.
| Yes | Built before 1974 (1925) |
| Yes | Six or more residential units (278) |
| No | 421-a / J-51 tax benefit on the current tax roll |
2 of 3 signals present. This is the classic profile of a rent-stabilized building (pre-1974, 6+ units) — many units in such buildings remain stabilized. The definitive answer for any unit: request its rent history from NYS Homes & Community Renewal (free, at hcr.ny.gov).
| Registered owner(s) | FIFTY FIRST CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, LP |
| Head officer | STEPHEN ROSEN |
| Managing agent | DIANA AMADOR |
| Last registered | 2025-07-10 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $64,361,000 | $28,962,450 |
| 2026 | $72,318,000 | $32,543,100 |
| 2027 | $69,940,000 | $31,473,000 |
The city's market estimate has risen 9% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
Tax exemptions on the roll: ARTICLE XI
| Heating fuel | NO4FUEL |
| Facade (Local Law 11) | SWARMP — "Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program": known facade conditions that must be repaired (cycle 9) |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Famous Pop's Pizzas | Pizza | A | Mice evidence |
| Poke Bowl | Hawaiian | A | Mice evidence |
| Taco Bell | Tex-Mex | A | — |
| Vanguard Wine Bar | French | A | — |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
4 restaurants · 2 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
2 food-poisoning reports to 311 at this address in the last three years (0 with three or more people sick), shared by 4 restaurants
9 Food Establishment complaints to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Toilet Facility, Food Contaminated, Food Spoiled), shared by 4 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 2022 (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 | 50 St — C E · 150 ft straight-line (about a 1-minute walk) · station accessibility: partial (Downtown only) 50 St — 1 · 450 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: W 50 St / 8 Av — M50 · 200 ft |
| Citi Bike | 8 Ave & W 49 St · 400 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs Middle: M.S. 297. 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.
834 8 Avenue
| Heat or hot water | Heat or hot water |
| Apartment maintenance | Apartment maintenance |
| Bed bugs | Bed bugs |
| Residential pests | Residential pests |
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
114 311 service requests from this address in the last three years — 23 of them about heat or hot water.
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: $68,500,000 on 2019-11-01 (lender: Greystone Servicing Company LLC). Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-01 | Mortgage $68,500,000 — from CAPITOL APARTMENTS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT F; FIFTY FIRST-CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, L.P. to GREYSTONE SERVICING COMPANY LLC | $68,500,000 | |
| 2012-08-27 | Agreement $45,000,000 — from FIFITY FIRST-CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, L.P. to GREYSTONE SERVICING CORPORATION, INC. | $45,000,000 | |
| 2012-08-27 | Mortgage $17,523,352 to GREYSTONE SERVICING CORPORATION, INC. | $17,523,352 | |
| 2005-03-23 | M&CON $29,000,000 — from FIFTY FIRST-CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, L.P. to MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC. | $29,000,000 | |
| 2005-03-23 | AL&R $29,000,000 — from MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC. to FIFTY FIRST-CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, L.P. | $29,000,000 | |
| 1988-10-17 | Mortgage $7,724,044 — from FIFTY-FIRST CAPITOLASC to REILLY MTGE GROUP INC | $7,724,044 | |
| 1985-09-19 | Mortgage $7,000,000 — from FIFTY FIRST-CAPITALASOC to CONNECTICUT NATIONLBANK | $7,000,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 10 | 21 | 63 | 0 | 1 | 95 |
| 2018 | 39 | 4 | 51 | 0 | 2 | 96 |
| 2019 | 10 | 4 | 47 | 9 | 13 | 83 |
| 2020 | 4 | 8 | 104 | 0 | 7 | 123 |
| 2021 | 9 | 4 | 111 | 0 | 10 | 134 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | 115 | 0 | 2 | 123 |
| 2023 | 11 | 5 | 72 | 0 | 11 | 99 |
| 2024 | 2 | 5 | 49 | 0 | 7 | 63 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 52 | 0 | 5 | 64 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 0 | 5 | 75 |
Every one of the 1,989 recorded events, 1900–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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