The city's published records show little recorded distress here in the last three years. Less recorded distress than 77% of 6-24-unit residential buildings citywide. The citywide median for 6-24-unit residential buildings is 16.3 penalty
points per 10 units; this building carries 4. In ZIP 11213, 61% of residential buildings hold an A and
11% grade D or F.
How grades work
this building
A
B
C
Among 46,798 6-24-unit residential buildings citywide · left is less recorded distress, right is more
Open with the city right now
No current HPD flags in the latest weekly snapshot: no open violations, no
pending litigation, no active vacate orders, and not in the Alternative Enforcement Program.
Patterns
4 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2024–25: 2 · winter 2025–26: 2). Repeated winter clusters suggest a chronic heating problem.
2
’24–25
2
’25–26
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
What 311 hears from this address
9 service requests in the last three years. Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (2) · PLUMBING (2) · Noise (1) · Missed Collection (1) · APPLIANCE (1) · DOOR/WINDOW (1).
Filed construction activity
No permitted work with a declared cost filed in the last decade. Permit
costs cover filed construction work only — they do not capture routine maintenance or repairs done
without a permit.
Rent-stabilization signals
Yes
Built before 1974 (1923)
Yes
Six or more residential units (20)
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 with HPD — the names behind the building
Registered owner(s)
510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LTD
Head officer
ALEXANDER BERKOVITCH
Managing agent
S&J CROWN MANAGEMENT LTD
Last registered
2025-10-07
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
What the city thinks it's worth
Tax year
City market value
Assessed value
2025
$1,185,000
$533,250
2026
$1,196,000
$538,200
2027
$1,177,000
$529,650
The city's market estimate has fallen
1% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
Building systems
Heating fuel
NATURALGAS
Flood exposure
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.
Getting around
Subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av — 3 4 · 300 ft straight-line (about a 1-minute walk) · station accessibility: full
Bus
Nearest boarding stop: Eastern Pkwy / Utica Av — B17 · 300 ft
Citi Bike
Eastern Pkwy & Schenectady Ave · 400 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability
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.
9 311 service requests from this address in the last three years — 2 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: $51,012 on
2026-06-24 (lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA), 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
2026-06-24
Mortgage $51,013 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA
$51,013
2026-06-24
Agreement $3,100,000 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA
$3,100,000
2021-05-12
Agreement $3,284,600 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$3,284,600
2020-12-17
Agreement $3,284,600 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$3,284,600
2014-06-02
Agreement $3,700,000 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$3,700,000
2014-05-23
Mortgage $1,056,645 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$1,056,645
2011-06-15
Agreement $2,780,000 to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$2,780,000
2011-06-10
Mortgage $2,368,635 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK
$2,368,635
2005-12-27
Agreement $850,000 — from INDEPENDWNCE COMMUNITY BANK to 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED
$850,000
2005-06-24
AL&R $850,000 — from INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK to 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED
$850,000
2005-06-24
Mortgage $277,551 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK
$277,551
2001-02-16
Mortgage $100,000 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK
$100,000
1991-05-02
Mortgage $750,000 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BLDRSLTD to COMMUNITY PRESERVATNCP
$750,000
1991-05-02
Mortgage $1,720,000 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BLDRSLTD to COMMUNITY PRESERVATNCP
$1,720,000
Ten-year activity
100500
2017
83
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
EnforcementHousing & tenantsOwnership & moneyHealth & systems
Show as table
Year
Enforcement
Housing & tenants
Ownership & money
Health & systems
Total
2017
1
21
0
3
25
2018
0
80
1
2
83
2019
1
33
0
1
35
2020
0
15
1
1
17
2021
0
5
1
1
7
2022
0
11
0
2
13
2023
0
2
0
1
3
2024
0
2
0
2
4
2025
0
4
0
3
7
2026
0
13
3
2
18
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2022-07-07HPD class B: § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE COUNTER BALANCE AT LOWER WINDOW SASH AT NORTH WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT
2022-07-07HPD class A: § 27-2013 ADM CODE PAINT WITH LIGHT COLORED PAINT TO THE SATISFACTION OF THIS DEPARTMENT THE CEILING IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th S
2020-12-17Agreement $3,284,600 — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK$3,284,600
2020-10-14Boiler inspection
2020-06-10HPD class B: § 27-2045 ADM CODE REPAIR OR REPLACE THE SMOKE DETECTOR DEFECTIVE LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, APARTMENT AT NORTH
2020-06-10HPD class B: § 27-2046.1 HMC: REPAIR OR REPLACE THE CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE(S). ''DEFECTIVE'' LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, APARTMENT AT NORTH
2020-06-10HPD class B: § 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF A KEY OPERATED LOCK INSTALLED ON DOOR TO ROOM WITH FIRE ESCAPE IN THE 1st
2020-05-11311: Request Large Bulky Item Collection — Request Large Bulky Item Collection
2020-04-26Tenant complaint: WATER LEAK — HEAVY FLOW
2020-04-26Tenant complaint: WATER LEAK — HEAVY FLOW
2020-04-26311: WATER LEAK — HEAVY FLOW
2020-04-26311: WATER LEAK — HEAVY FLOW
2020-02-06Bedbug filing: 0 infested units
2019
2019-10-02HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOODEN SINK BASE CABINET DOORS IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 2nd A
2019-09-20Boiler inspection
2019-09-03HPD class C: § 27-2026 ADM CODE REMOVE ALL OBSTRUCTIONS AND REPAIR ALL DEFECTS IN SINK DRAIN LINE IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 2nd APARTM
2019-08-05311: General Construction/Plumbing — Building Permit - None
2019-08-05DOB complaint, category ?
2019-06-24HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPLACE WITH NEW THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BASE CABINET DOOR, 3RD FROM WEST AT NORTH, IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th
2019-06-24HPD class B: § 27-2046.1 HMC: REPAIR OR REPLACE THE CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE(S). THAT IS DEFECTIVE LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FR
2019-06-24HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPLACE WITH NEW THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BASE CABINET DOOR, 2ND FROM WEST AT NORTH, IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th
2019-06-24HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPLACE WITH NEW THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BASE CABINET DOOR, 4TH FROM WEST AT NORTH, IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th
2019-05-09Tenant complaint: ELECTRIC — OUTLET/SWITCH
2019-05-09311: GENERAL — CABINET
2019-05-09311: FLOORING/STAIRS — FLOOR
2019-05-09311: FLOORING/STAIRS — FLOOR
2019-05-09311: ELECTRIC — OUTLET/SWITCH
2019-04-12HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPLACE WITH NEW THE MISSING DOORS AT SINK BASE CABINET IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM W
2019-04-12HPD class B: § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY SECURE THE LOOSE ELECTRICAL OUTLET AT SOUTH WALL IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM
2019-03-26Tenant complaint: ELECTRIC — OUTLET/SWITCH
2019-03-26Tenant complaint: PAINT/PLASTER — WALL
2019-03-26Tenant complaint: GENERAL — CABINET
2019-03-26Tenant complaint: GENERAL — CABINET
2019-03-26311: PAINT/PLASTER — WALL
2019-03-26311: ELECTRIC — OUTLET/SWITCH
2019-03-26311: GENERAL — CABINET
2019-03-26311: GENERAL — CABINET
2019-02-27Bedbug filing: 0 infested units
2019-02-09Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2019-02-09311: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018
2018-12-21Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-12-21311: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-12-06Rodent inspection: Passed
2018-09-27311: New Tree Request — For One Address
2018-08-27Mortgage satisfied — from 510 UNIVERSAL BUILDERS LIMITED to CITY OF NEW YORK
2018-08-21311: Lead — Lead Kit Request (Residential) (L10)
2018-07-16HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WASH BASIN VANITY DOOR IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMEN
2018-07-06Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-02-26HPD class A: § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROVIDE BRACKETS FOR AIR CONDITIONERS AT 2 AND 3 STY WINDOWS BUILDING FRONT
2018-02-24Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-02-24311: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-01-07Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — ENTIRE BUILDING
2018-01-07311: HEAT/HOT WATER — ENTIRE BUILDING
2018-01-05HPD class C: § 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF HOT WATER ECEEDING THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 130 DEGREESAT KITCHEN SINK F
2018-01-01Tenant complaint: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2018-01-01311: HEAT/HOT WATER — APARTMENT ONLY
2017
2017-11-14Rodent inspection: Passed
2017-11-07Boiler inspection
2017-09-11Eviction executed (1-A)
2017-06-28HPD class C: § 27-2043.1 HMC INSTALL THE MISSING OR REPAIR/REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE WINDOW GUARD(S) THROUGHOUT THE PUBLIC AREAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECI
2017-06-13HPD class C: § 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 3C, 3rd STO
2017-06-13HPD class B: § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR AT CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT
2017-04-28311: Noise - Vehicle — Car/Truck Music
2017-04-20HPD class C: § 27-2043.1 HMC INSTALL THE MISSING OR REPAIR/REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE WINDOW GUARD(S) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE NEW YORK CI
2017-04-20HPD class B: § 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE ARRANGE AND MAKE SELF-CLOSING THE DOORS APT ENTRANCE IN THE FOYER LOCATED AT APT 3C, 3rd STORY, 3rd APARTMENT FROM
2017-04-20HPD class B: § 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT BATHROOM CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 3C
2017-04-18Tenant complaint: WATER LEAK — HEAVY FLOW
2016-12-08HPD class B: § 27-2018 ADMIN. CODE: ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST A
2016-10-08City emergency repair (OMO): at apt. #4b (4th story) -------------- at 4th room from east-------------- properly repair the defective inoperable lowe$245
2016-09-22DOB complaint, category ?
2016-09-21HPD class B: § 27-2018 ADMIN. CODE: ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF MICE LOCATED AT APT 4B, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH
2016-09-21HPD class C: SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE COUNTER BALANCE WINDOW LOWER SASH IN THE 4th ROOM FROM EAST LOCATED AT APT
2016-09-21HPD class A: § 27-2013 ADM CODE PAINT WITH LIGHT COLORED PAINT TO THE SATISFACTION OF THIS DEPARTMENT ALL WALLS AND CEILING IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCAT