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HPD sent out a press release yesterday about its “list of 200 residential buildings that have been placed into the agency’s fourth round of the Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP). The AEP…is aimed at increasing the pressure on the owners of the City’s most distressed residential buildings to bring the properties up to code so that the residents are not forced to live in substandard and hazardous conditions.” Anyhow, Brooklyn had far and away the most buildings on the list (click through to see all the ones from Kings County) with a count of 99. The Bronx got dubious second-place honors with 70 properties; Manhattan had 23, Queens had seven, and S.I. had but one. To make the cut, a building has to meet crappiness criteria such as having “three or more open hazardous or immediately hazardous violations per unit issued in the past two years, and Emergency Repair Program (ERP) charges of $5,000 or more for the same time period to qualify. ERP charges are money owed by the owners to the City for repairs done by HPD to correct immediately hazardous violations that the owner failed to address. Residential buildings with between three and 20 units qualified if the building had five or more open hazardous or immediately hazardous violations per unit issued in the past two years, and emergency repair charges of $2,500 or more for the same time period. In this AEP round, the buildings with the highest ERP paid and unpaid in the last two years were selected.” The biggest of Brooklyn’s baddest in terms of number of units is 209 East 34th Street, pictured above, which has 70 apartments.
Photo via PropertyShark.

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