NYC's 'Worst Landlord' Owns A Building On The Upper West Side

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Tenants of one Upper West Side building have the unfortunate claim of living in a property owned by the worst landlord in New York City during 2022, according to an annual report by the Public Advocate's Office.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams office on Tuesday released its "Worst Landlords Watchlist," which uses public data on housing violations to highlight the property owners in the five boroughs who keep their buildings in the worst shape.

The list is based on the average number of open violations recorded at each building between December 2021 and November 2022, according to the city's housing department.

In the top spot was Johnathan Santana, who is tied to 15 buildings on the watchlist — and, with 2,980 open violations, has the most of any landlord in the history of the watchlist, according to Williams.

One of those 15 buildings owned by Santana is on the Upper West Side.

Here are the details.

104 W. 83rd St. (Between Amsterdam and Columbus)

• Number of units: 18
• Number of HPD violations: 117
• Number of DOB violations: 3
• Number of evictions in the past two years: 0

The active Department of Buildings violations for the UWS address include failure to hire a professional survey team to perform regular monitoring of the building, and failure to correct an unspecified "immediately hazardous" situation, according to the DOB's website.

A recent complaint made to the DOB that was assigned to the department's Emergency Response Team wrote that part of the building was "leaning toward east," and an interior structural wall has 'sign of various cracks."

You can check out the worst landlord list for yourself — here.