Just 1 West Village Building Featured On Worst Landlord List

WEST VILLAGE, NY — As a neighborhood, the West Village had a positive showing on this year's list of the worst landlords in New York City for 2021. A single neighborhood building was featured on the watchlist of buildings for its number of violations over the past 11 months.

The Public Advocate's office compiled the annual report between December 2020 and November 2021 by sampling the average number of serious, unresolved violations of the city's housing code at buildings around the city each month. Managing agents were then ranked by their average number of open violations, according to THE CITY, which first reported on this year's study.

The report includes one building in the West Village: 14 Grove Street.

The 19-unit building racked up 68 violations in 2021. The median income for the building is $133,501, and the non-white percentage of tenants is 11 percent.

In nearby Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, Chelsea had four buildings featured on the 2021 worst landlord list, and SoHo had two.

The report found that the worst offender in the five boroughs was David Schorr, a director at Sugar Hill Capital Partners. The 17 buildings citywide where Schorr was listed as the manager had an average of 1,442 violations combined.

Here are the top five alleged offenders in this year's "Worst Landlord Watchlist":

1. David Schorr: 17 buildings, 1,442 average violations
2. Abdul Khan: 12 buildings, 1,302 average violations
3. Nathaniel Montgomery: 17 buildings, 1,192 average violations
4. Michael Niamonitakis: 10 buildings, 1,060 average violations
5. David Blau: 5 buildings, 1,050 average violations

Schorr did not immediately respond to Patch's request for comment, and declined to comment when reached by THE CITY. According to his LinkedIn, Schorr left Sugar Hill in September for a new role at the real estate company Fairstead.

In a statement, Sugar Hill Capital Partners said that "We respect the work of the Public Advocate but our inclusion on this watchlist is misleading."

See the Public Advocate's full report, including landlords' names and a map of buildings, here.

Patch reporter Nick Garber contributed to this report.