The numbers are crunched, and the results are in: The worst landlords in NYC appear to be as bad as ever.
That’s according to New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who unsheathed the latest edition of his annual list of NYC property owners with the most open violations against them on Wednesday, January 21, a few blocks southeast of Prospect Park in front of 80 Woodruff Avenue, a rare building jointly represented by the two biggest, most negligent offenders of 2025. “This is the first known instance of the top two landlords representing the same entity, and demonstrates both the breadth of the violations at their properties and the means with which corporate entities seek to avoid accountability,” Williams said at the event, per Brooklyn Paper.
The Public Advocate also noted the building’s landlords, Margaret Brunn and Donald Hastings, accumulated more violations in 2025 than any in history. Between them, Brunn and Hastings (through his company A&E Real Estate Holdings) racked up roughly 9,000 violations across their cumulative 60 properties around the city, including ones for infestations (of every denomination), heat malfunctions, hot-water outages, and an assortment of safety hazards. In fact, the dastardly duo were hit with so many violations for buildings left to rot in disrepair that they firmly dethroned Barry Singer, last year’s list-topper, now sitting at No. 3, with almost 3,000 violations at his 15 properties. The other familiar names from last year’s update include Yonatan Bahumi (1,801 violations across 34 buildings), Claudette Henry (1,738 violations across 25 buildings), and David Tennenbaum (1,549 violations across 14 buildings), all slightly lower on the list than they were this time last year.
“Each hazardous violation on the Worst Landlord Watchlist, each building in disrepair, each landlord putting profit over people, represents New Yorkers suffering in their homes,” Williams said in a press release. The list, which tallies building violations recorded between November 2024 and October 2025, is meant to be something of a ledger, “designed to serve as a tool for information, organization, and accountability,” according to Williams’ statement.
Read the full list of NYC’s 100 worst landlords—which includes breakdowns by building and borough—and see if yours made the cut.
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