219 recorded events, 1985–2026, from 11 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 88 311 service requests, 33 rodent inspections, 25 ACRIS deeds & mortgages.
Full record, year by year Support this site
A sustained record of distress well beyond its peers. More recorded distress than 96% of 1-5-unit residential buildings citywide. The citywide median for 1-5-unit residential buildings is 0 penalty points per 10 units; this building carries 53.3. In ZIP 11205, 49% of residential buildings hold an A and 13% grade D or F. How grades work
Among 699,345 1-5-unit residential buildings citywide · left is less recorded distress, right is more
| Open HPD violations | 9 total — 3 class C (immediately hazardous), 0 class B, 6 class A. Oldest open since 2021-04-09. |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
2 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2025–26: 2).
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
$1,250 in enforcement penalties imposed (ECB/OATH) in the last three years.
20 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Graffiti (7) · Consumer Complaint (3) · Illegal Parking (2) · Noise (2) · Water System (2) · Missed Collection (1).
$10,000 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (1 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 (1931) |
| No | Six or more residential units (3) |
| No | 421-a / J-51 tax benefit on the current tax roll |
1 of 3 signals present. Only a partial profile — stabilization is possible but less likely. The definitive answer for any unit: request its rent history from NYS Homes & Community Renewal (free, at hcr.ny.gov).
| Registered owner(s) | ABDUL POPAL |
| Last registered | 2022-08-09 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $625,200 | $281,340 |
| 2026 | $666,000 | $299,700 |
| 2027 | $754,000 | $339,300 |
The city's market estimate has risen 21% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Pizza & Chicken | Chicken | A | Mice evidence · Closed by DOHMH on 2018-10-03 |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
1 restaurant · 1 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 | Bedford-Nostrand Avs — G · 50 ft straight-line (under a minute) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: Nostrand Av / Lafayette Av — B44 · under 50 ft |
| Citi Bike | Kosciuszko St & Nostrand Ave · 400 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker. 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.
586 Lafayette 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 |
20 311 service requests from this address in the last three years — 1 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: $1,138,645 on 2016-02-24 (lender: Emigrant Funding Corporation), covering 2 lots — the amount covers all of them. Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-07 | Agreement $1,184,124 — from NOSTRAND & LAFAYETTE PROPERTIES, L.L.C. to EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION | $1,184,124 | |
| 2016-02-24 | Agreement $1,461,000 — from NOSTRAND & LAFAYETTE PROPERTIES, L.L.C. to EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION | $1,461,000 | |
| 2016-02-24 | Mortgage $1,138,645 — from NOSTRAND & LAFAYETTE PROPERTIES, L.L.C. to EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION | $1,138,645 | |
| 2016-02-24 | AL&R $1,461,000 — from NOSTRAND & LAFAYETTE PROPERTIES, L.L.C. to EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION | $1,461,000 | |
| 2005-11-07 | Mortgage $711,750 — from POPAL, ABDUL H to EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION | $711,750 | |
| 2004-08-31 | DEEDO $525,000 — from BLAKE, FRANKLIN to POPAL, ABDUL | $525,000 | |
| 2001-01-03 | Mortgage $309,000 — from BLAKE, FRANKLIN to NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSINGSERVICES OF NEW YORK | $309,000 | |
| 1995-06-23 | Mortgage $50,000 — from BLAKE, FRANKLIN to J.A.G. REALTY PARTNERS INC; D & J URBAN SAFARI RESTAURANT CORP | $50,000 | |
| 1989-02-09 | Mortgage $300,000 — from J A G RLTY PARTNERSINC; D &J URBAN SAFARI RESTAU to J S FUNDING CORP | $300,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
Every one of the 219 recorded events, 1985–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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