West Village Building Named Among 'Most Distressed' In NYC

WEST VILLAGE, NY — An apartment building in the West Village has amassed so many violations that it could face emergency repairs from the city, officials announced on Wednesday.

The West Village building — which holds 14 homes — was among 250 citywide that were added this week to the city's Alternate Enforcement Program, which monitors the "most distressed" multi-family properties across the city.

Under the program, the buildings' landlords will have four months to fix thousands of open violations or face penalties. The city will step in and make "emergency repairs" at the landlord's expense if they don't meet the deadline, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Here is the West Village building labeled among the most distressed in the city:

323 West 4th Street (Between Jane Street and West 12th Street): 14 apartments

The five-story building is managed by the Brodsky Organization.

According to the Department of Buildings' website, the West Village address has had 18 complaints, with two open from the DOB and one open from OATH.

There could be more violations than the website is showing, though.

The West Village address was one of the very few in Lower Manhattan that was in the most recent batch of "most distressed" buildings.

Of the 43 Manhattan buildings, 36 of the properties are in Washington Heights and Harlem.

"All New Yorkers deserve safe, well-maintained homes, and 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 in a statement this week.

"The Alternative Enforcement Program is an effective set of tools at our disposal to hold landlords accountable when they don't do right by their tenants, and we are not afraid to use them if it means getting the city's most troubled buildings into shape quickly."

Manhattan made up less than a quarter of the latest round of distressed buildings; Brooklyn properties comprised nearly half the list, with 119 in total, followed by 72 in the Bronx, 43 in Manhattan and 16 in Queens.

In total, the 250 buildings added this week have nearly 40,000 open housing code violations, 9,442 of which were deemed "immediately hazardous" and include problems like mold, rodents, lead-based paint and a lack of heat, hot water or electricity.

Patch reporters Anna Quinn and Nick Garber contributed to this report.