Map: These 250 Buildings Are Among NYC's 'Most Distressed'

NEW YORK CITY — Mold, rodents, lead-based paint and faulty wiring plague the hundreds of New York buildings deemed to be the city's "most distressed," city records show.

The 250 buildings earned the "most distressed" title by racking up nearly 40,000 open housing code violations, 9,442 of which were deemed immediately hazardous, Housing Preservation and Development officials announced this week.

There are 5,104 New York City homes in the buildings officials say require emergency action, according to an HPD tally.

"Landlords across the city need to know that if they are unwilling to do what is right to provide that, we will take action," HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión, Jr. said. "All New Yorkers deserve safe, well-maintained homes."

Landlords and homeowners have four months to make thousands of repairs or face hefty fines under HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program, officials said.

Should the landlords fail to make the emergency upgrades, the city will swoop in, make the changes and send the landlords the bill, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Brooklyn has the most distressed buildings with 119, followed by 72 in The Bronx, 43 in Manhattan, and 16 in Queens.

Here are the locations of all of the "distressed" NYC buildings.

The list does not include information about which buildings had the most violations, but the building with the most units — an 81-apartment complex on 39th Avenue in Woodside, Queens — had 386 open violations as of March 4.

The violations at 61-05 39th Avenue include 81 deemed immediately hazardous, including mice and roach infestations, defective window guards and problems with self-closing doors, city records show.

Self-closing doors also plagued The Bronx building where 17 people died in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's recent history of the city's worst blazes, which fire officials said contributed to the high death toll.

A door remained open and allowed the smoke to spread through the building, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said at the time.

"Smoke is what caused the death and the serious injuries," Nigro said. "The fire was contained to the hallway just outside this two-story apartment, but the smoke traveled throughout the building."

The Housing department's Litigation Division has also taken the emergency repair fight to court, demanding $3 million in payment for Emergency Repair Program charges.

Fifty of the distressed buildings are connected to the Worst Landlord Watchlist by the Public Advocate, who puts out a Worst Landlord Watchlist each year were also named among the "most distressed" in New York City.

Throughout the week, Patch did a local breakdown of where the "distressed" buildings were in certain neighborhoods.

Manhattan:

• 24 Harlem Buildings Named 'Most Distressed' In NYC
• 14 Wash Heights, Inwood Buildings Named 'Most Distressed' In NYC
• 2 Upper West Side Buildings Named Among 'Most Distressed' In NYC
• West Village Building Named Among 'Most Distressed' In NYC

Brooklyn:

• 15 Bed-Stuy Buildings Named 'Most Distressed' In NYC: HPD
• 15 Crown, Prospect Heights Buildings Are NYC's 'Most Distressed'
• 10 Brownsville, East NY Buildings Named 'Most Distressed' In NYC