AKAM Associates, Inc.

Managing agent — unlicensed in New York State

542 buildings. No state license. No public complaint registry. No disciplinary body.

542 buildings managed

3,150 Class C violations
(immediately hazardous)

$7.6M LL11 penalty fees
(top 25 buildings)

289 active NYSCEF cases
(top 25 buildings)

PORTFOLIO GEOGRAPHY

542 buildings across four boroughs.

AKAM does not name itself in any NYC public dataset. We identified their full portfolio through pattern analysis of publicly available NYC housing registration records — cross-referencing officer filings, building registrations, and corporate identifiers across every multifamily property in the city.

345 Manhattan

138 Queens

44 Brooklyn

15 Bronx

THE PATTERN

Fee abandonment.

AKAM's distinguishing pattern is what we call fee abandonment: the firm lets Local Law 11 facade inspection deadlines expire and absorbs the financial penalty rather than completing timely remediation. The top 25 AKAM buildings have accumulated approximately $5.5 million in LL11 penalty fees — a figure that dwarfs any other firm in our dataset.

This is not negligence in the traditional sense. It is a business model. The penalties are paid from building operating funds — meaning unit owners pay them through common charges. The managing agent bears no financial consequence. The facade remains uninspected. The risk remains with the residents and pedestrians below.

COMPARED

Two firms. Two ways of failing.

AKAM and FirstService Residential — the two largest firms we've scored — show fundamentally different failure patterns. Neither is better. Both are unregulated.

AKAM top 25

~3,200 Class C violations

~600 Water 311 complaints

$5.5M LL11 penalty fees

Lets facade deadlines expire. Pays the fine from your common charges.

FirstService top 25

~6,400 Class C violations

~9,400 Water 311 complaints

$170K LL11 penalty fees

More hazardous conditions. More water failures. Fewer dollar penalties.

THE 25 WORST AKAM BUILDINGS

Ranked by Class C violations.

Class C violations are HPD's highest severity — conditions that are immediately hazardous to life and health. These 25 buildings account for the majority of AKAM's 3,202 Class C violations across 543 buildings.

#	Address	Borough	Class C Violations
1	21-05 33rd Street	Queens	170
2	21-16 35th Street	Queens	160
3	4260 Broadway	Manhattan	142
4	61 Tiemann Place	Manhattan	142
5	1165 East 54th Street	Brooklyn	134
6	21-47 33rd Street	Queens	130
7	241 St Nicholas Avenue	Manhattan	100
8	1270 East 51st Street	Brooklyn	97
9	1655 Flatbush Avenue	Brooklyn	96
10	1271 East 51st Street	Brooklyn	95
11	178 Bradhurst Avenue	Manhattan	95
12	1190 East 53rd Street	Brooklyn	93
13	1199 East 53rd Street	Brooklyn	74
14	160 Wadsworth Avenue	Manhattan	72
15	28 Jefferson Avenue	Brooklyn	66
16	21-58 35th Street	Queens	60
17	21-38 35th Street	Queens	53
18	21-68 35th Street	Queens	52
19	2681 Broadway	Manhattan	52
20	21-57 33rd Street	Queens	50
21	1200 Fifth Avenue	Manhattan	42
22	710 Riverside Drive	Manhattan	42
23	21-77 33rd Street	Queens	36
24	97-10 62nd Drive	Queens	32
25	811 Cortelyou Road	Brooklyn	31

Source: HPD Violations (NYC Open Data). Class C = immediately hazardous to life and health.

DATA SOURCE

Public records. 542 buildings.

The entire AKAM portfolio was identified through analysis of publicly available NYC housing registration records. Every building on this page is verifiable through city data. The methodology is proprietary but the underlying data is not.

If one person can map a 542-building portfolio from public records, the state's failure to maintain a managing agent registry is not a data problem. It is a policy choice.

RIGHT OF REPLY

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542 buildings. $7.6 million in penalties.
Zero regulatory consequences.

Every data point on this page comes from free public records. The only reason this information wasn't already public is that no one assembled it before.

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