Resident-Led · 321–350 West 47th Street
West 47th Street Tenants
A resident-led hub for neighbors to report building conditions, connect with one another and review verified public records.
Built by a tenant on this block. This is not an outside organization.
Reports may be submitted anonymously. Contact-list information is used for tenant coordination.
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Tenant Meeting Interest
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Resolved Building Update · 323 West 47th Street
Water service restored at approximately 1:30 PM Tuesday, 8/18/26.
The first documented report on this site was approximately 12:50 PM. Cause and repair details have not been independently confirmed.
Source: NYC Mayor's Office on YouTube
Released: August 4, 2026
The Union of Pinnacle Tenants: A Short History of NYC Housing
The film concerns a different group of buildings. It is included as a practical organizing example, not as evidence about West 47th Street.
Watch The Film & See Why It Matters →NYC Tenant Resource
Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants · Director Cea Weaver
Official City tenant-rights, housing-quality and tenant-support resources.
On This Page
Current Conditions & Organizing Efforts
Current building updates, live HPD records, 311 documentation guidance, shared priorities and practical ways tenants can coordinate.
Documentation & 311 Runbook
Current Open Violations
HPD records for buildings on this block (Loading live data...)
Preserve The Record
Hot water has been restored. Keep complaint numbers, screenshots, dates, and management messages from the outage. If service fails again or another condition remains unresolved, report it through 311 and document the new timeline separately.
Call 311 If Needed311 Operator: "311, how can I help you?"
You: "Hi, I’m following up on a residential maintenance complaint for [Your Building #] West 47th Street, apartment [Your Unit]."
You: "Hot-water service was restored at approximately noon on Monday, August 10. I want the complaint record to reflect the restoration time and confirm whether any inspection or follow-up remains open. My complaint number is [Complaint Number]."
Shared Priorities To Discuss
Reliable Essential Services
Maintain required hot water, heat, plumbing, and other essential building services.
Timely Documented Repairs
Acknowledge maintenance requests, provide status updates, and close the loop when work is actually completed.
Accountable Communication
Clear notices, responsible points of contact, and written timelines when a major building service fails.
No Retaliation For Organizing
Tenants must be able to report conditions, communicate with neighbors, and participate in lawful tenant organizing.
How To Participate
For official City tenant resources, visit the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.
Stay Connected
Join The Tenant List
Share an email address and, if you wish, a phone number. This list is only for West 47th Street tenant coordination.
By joining, you ask us to contact you about tenant coordination at the email address and, if provided, phone number above. Message frequency varies; carrier rates may apply. Reply STOP to a text or contact us to opt out. See the Privacy & Confidentiality Policy.
The Record
Ownership, Management & History
Review ownership, management registrations, court actions, agency records & reporting relevant to these buildings.
Who Runs These Buildings
Public records show the buildings at 321–350 West 47th Street are owned through limited partnerships (including 321-3 West 47th Street Associates, L.P.) and managed by Big Apple Management.
HPD registrations list Maxine Gilbert as Head Officer and Eric Gaugler as Agent, with Jamie Satchell listed as Site Manager. The business address is 347 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1201.
At that same address, David Ohebshalom is publicly listed as the principal of Big Apple Properties (operating as Big Apple Management).
Patch reported in 2021 that the owners of Highpoint Associates included David Ohebshalom and Daniel Ohebshalom, also known as Dan Shalom. That reported business connection concerns a separate entity and portfolio.
The records cited for the West 47th Street properties do not establish that Daniel Ohebshalom owns or manages these buildings. The separate criminal and civil matters summarized below are included as nearby geographic and public-record context—not as evidence about ownership, management or conduct at the West 47th Street properties.
The Pattern on West 47th Street
West 47th Street events are identified separately from nearby proceedings involving other properties.
The City of New York filed a lawsuit against Big Apple Management and the ownership entities of the West 47th Street buildings, specifically citing 321, 323, 328, 332, 334, 348, and 350. The nine-cause-of-action complaint alleged illegal conversion of rent-stabilized apartments into short-term transient rentals and related housing-code violations.
The case resolved through a $700,000 settlement. The City's official announcement states that the settlement included a permanent injunction prohibiting illegal short-term rentals at the seven West 47th Street buildings and additional properties.
The Manhattan District Attorney announced an indictment of Daniel Ohebshalom, also known as Dan Shalom, and four companies concerning five other properties: 331 East 14th Street; 410 and 412 West 46th Street; and 705 and 709 West 170th Street. The two West 46th Street properties are one block south of the West 47th Street buildings.
The charges listed against Ohebshalom include Class E felony counts of first-degree harassment of rent-regulated tenants and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, plus misdemeanor child-endangerment counts. The charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. The indictment does not concern the West 47th Street properties.
A January 6, 2026 New York Supreme Court decision described parallel criminal proceedings against Highpoint Associates XII, Keystone Management and Ohebshalom as ongoing while denying their request to pause a separate civil lawsuit involving 410 and 412 West 46th Street. On March 9, 2026, Gothamist reported that Ohebshalom had pleaded not guilty and continued to face the criminal charges.
The Manhattan District Attorney's media page also linked to a February 22, 2026 New York Times report, “Will Threat of Prison Make One of New York's ‘Worst Landlords’ Change?” These sources concern Ohebshalom and other properties; they do not establish facts about the West 47th Street buildings.
On August 9, 2026, HPD Open Data listed 409 open violations across the seven buildings: 128 Class A, 216 Class B, 57 Class C, and 8 Class I. HPD classifies Class B violations as hazardous and Class C violations as immediately hazardous. An open status means the violation remains active in HPD's records; it does not, by itself, establish whether the physical condition has since been corrected.
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How To Read The Sources
Start With What Is Documented
These links are grouped by what they actually establish. First comes the documented West 47th Street record. Next comes separate reporting that explains why certain names and a nearby West 46th Street case are worth understanding—but does not prove who owns or manages the West 47th Street buildings. Last are practical organizing and tenant-rights tools.
01–06
The West 47th Street Record
These sources concern the West 47th Street buildings or 323 West 47th Street directly.
- 01The City’s 2018 Case Summary
The fastest overview: seven West 47th Street buildings, Big Apple Management & the City’s allegations.
- 02The Full Verified Complaint (PDF)
The 50-page court filing behind the City’s summary, including the named entities, buildings & causes of action.
- 03The City’s 2021 Settlement Announcement
The official outcome, including the $700,000 West 47th Street settlement & permanent injunction.
- 04A Plain-English Settlement Recap
Patch’s shorter account of how the West 47th Street case ended.
- 05The Broader $1.2 Million Resolution
The Real Deal places the West 47th settlement within two City short-term-rental cases resolved together.
- 06Current Building-Level Records
JustFix’s public-data view for 323 West 47th Street, including registration, complaint & portfolio information.
07–12
Context—Not Proof About West 47th Street
This section answers two narrower questions: where are David and Daniel Ohebshalom reported together elsewhere, and what separate Manhattan case involves Daniel at buildings one block away?
Names & Entities Reported Elsewhere
- 07Who Is David Ohebshalom?
An industry profile useful for basic name and real-estate orientation. It is not an ownership filing for West 47th Street.
- 08Where David & Daniel Are Reported Together
Patch reported both men as owners of Highpoint in a separate Queens matter. That limited reporting is why the two names appear together here.
A Separate Case One Block Away
The Manhattan DA case concerns five other properties, including 410 and 412 West 46th Street. Its proximity is why it is included. It is not being offered as evidence about ownership or management at West 47th Street.
- 09What The Manhattan DA Alleged
The DA’s official 2024 announcement identifies five other properties, including the two West 46th Street buildings. Charges remain allegations.
- 10What A January 2026 Decision Said About Case Status (PDF)
A separate civil decision described the parallel criminal proceedings as ongoing at that time.
- 11How The New York Times Reported The Separate Case
Narrative reporting on Daniel Ohebshalom and the separate criminal case. Subscription may be required.
- 12Why The Case Is Now Part Of A Citywide Policy Debate
Gothamist places the separate case within the Safer Homes Act debate over distressed-property transfers.
13–16
Practical Tenant Tools
The film is a case study from elsewhere and is featured on the homepage. The remaining links are official New York organizing and tenant-rights resources.
- 13Watch A Real Tenant-Union Case Study
The City Hall film featured on the homepage follows organizing across 93 other buildings. It does not concern West 47th Street.
- 14Read The Organizing Law: Real Property Law § 230
The New York statute protecting lawful tenant organizing and meetings.
- 15Use The Mayor’s Office Letter (PDF)
A one-page official notice that can be shared with owners or managers.
- 16Keep The Attorney General Guidance (PDF)
Detailed guidance on meetings, door-knocking, flyers & invited organizers.
Know Your Rights
Organizing Rights & Retaliation
Official guidance and practical documentation steps for tenants who are organizing, communicating with neighbors, or concerned about retaliation.
Know Your Rights
Under New York Real Property Law § 230, tenants have the legal right to form, join, and participate in tenant organizations. Your landlord cannot legally stop you from organizing.
- ✓ Meet in common areas at reasonable hours without paying a fee
- ✓ Distribute flyers and post information
- ✓ Knock on doors to talk with neighbors
- ✓ Invite organizers or attorneys onto the property when invited by a tenant
Official Organizing Guidance
If You Think Retaliation Is Happening
Preserve the before-and-after timeline: the organizing activity or complaint, the date management became aware of it, the adverse action, related notices or messages, and any witnesses or comparable tenant treatment. Keep the original documents.
Share Your Experience
Document what’s happening in your unit so we have a clear record.
You may submit anonymously. Information submitted here is treated as non-public organizing information and used for tenant organizing, documentation, follow-up & related housing advocacy. Submitting information does not create an attorney-client relationship or legal privilege.
Read The Privacy & Confidentiality Policy →West 47th Street Tenants
Privacy & Confidentiality
This policy explains what each site form collects, how tenant information is used, which service providers process it & what confidentiality can and cannot mean here.
1. Scope & Purpose
West 47th Street Tenants is a resident-led tenant-organizing effort. Information submitted through this site may be used to document housing conditions, identify patterns affecting tenants or buildings, coordinate organizing activity, follow up on submissions, maintain organizing records & support related housing advocacy.
“Confidentiality” means we treat identifiable submissions as non-public organizing information, limit access to people who reasonably need it & avoid unnecessary disclosure. It does not mean attorney-client privilege, a legally protected professional relationship or an absolute promise of secrecy. This site is not a law firm, and information may still be subject to valid legal process.
The site asks search engines not to index its pages. That request does not make the site password-protected or private. Anyone with the URL may be able to view the public pages, so identifiable tenant information should be submitted only through the forms or contact methods provided.
2. Information We Collect
Tenant Contact List
The contact-list form collects an email address, an optional phone number & outreach-attribution fields. Submitting that form asks us to contact you about West 47th Street tenant coordination.
Meeting Poll
The meeting poll records your interest, meeting-format preference & outreach-attribution fields. It does not ask for your name, apartment or contact information.
Tenant Reports
The report form may collect your name, email address, phone number, building, unit, housing-condition details, management communications, 311 information, written descriptions, communication preferences & whether supporting evidence exists. Evidence files are collected separately, not through the Netlify report form.
Anonymous Reports
You may submit a report without providing your name or contact information. Building information is still required, and details such as unit number, narrative, dates, screenshots, file names, document contents or embedded file metadata may identify you. Review what you provide if anonymity is important.
Technical & Campaign Information
The site may collect page views, clicks, video engagement, referral source, campaign parameters, device/browser information, approximate location derived from network information, and similar analytics data. Cloudflare Turnstile also processes browser and network signals needed to perform bot/human verification and produces a short-lived verification token for the report submission. Campaign values such as UTM parameters, GCLID or FBCLID may be stored in your browser so a later form submission can retain its original referral information.
After a report is submitted, session storage temporarily keeps the report reference, submission time & evidence-selection status so the confirmation page can display them in that browser session.
3. How We Use Information
- ✓Document building conditions, repairs, management communications, 311 complaints & related tenant concerns.
- ✓Identify patterns affecting multiple tenants, units or buildings.
- ✓Coordinate meetings, organizing activity, follow-up & tenant communications.
- ✓Maintain records reasonably necessary for organizing, documentation, advocacy, security, dispute or record-integrity purposes.
- ✓Use aggregated, summarized or reasonably de-identified information to describe building-wide patterns or support tenant advocacy.
4. Access & Sharing
Access to identifiable submissions is intended to be limited to people who reasonably need the information to administer the site, review tenant submissions or support the organizing effort.
Current service providers include Netlify for site hosting, serverless functions and form processing; Cloudflare Turnstile for bot/human verification and, if enabled at the domain level, Cloudflare for DNS/security services; Google Analytics for site-use measurement; Proton for email and separate evidence transfer; and YouTube for the organizing film. Each provider processes information under its own terms and privacy practices.
We do not intentionally disclose identifiable tenant submissions to management, other tenants, media, elected officials, public agencies or outside advocacy organizations simply because a report was submitted. Without permission, disclosure may occur only when required by applicable law or valid legal process, reasonably necessary to protect the site from fraud, abuse or unauthorized access, or reasonably necessary to respond to an imminent threat of serious physical harm.
With your permission, information may be shared with legal counsel, tenant-support organizations, government agencies, elected officials, journalists or other parties when doing so supports the purpose for which you submitted it. Building-wide advocacy should use aggregated, summarized or redacted information whenever identifying details are not reasonably necessary.
5. Analytics, Tags & Browser Storage
The site uses Google Analytics and campaign-tracking tools to understand how people find and use the site. These tools may process page views, clicks, referral sources, browser/device information, approximate location derived from network information, cookies or similar identifiers.
Cloudflare Turnstile is used on the tenant-report form to reduce automated abuse. Its browser challenge creates a verification token that is sent to a server-side verification endpoint before the report is accepted. The Turnstile secret key is kept out of client-side code. See Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum for details about the browser and network signals it processes.
The site is not intentionally configured to send tenant names, email addresses, phone numbers, unit numbers, complaint narratives, 311 complaint numbers or uploaded file contents to Google Analytics. Form attribution data may separately be stored with the form submission so the organizing effort can understand which outreach source generated the submission.
Local storage and session storage may preserve first-touch and latest-touch campaign information, the initial landing page and, after a report submission, the temporary receipt information needed to display the report reference. Clearing browser storage may remove those locally stored values.
The organizing film uses YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed domain. The site records player events such as start, pause, progress and completion. YouTube may still receive technical information when its player loads or is used, and opening the video directly takes you to YouTube.
6. Evidence & Sensitive Information
Submit only information reasonably related to the housing or organizing issue you are documenting. Do not upload passwords, Social Security numbers, bank or payment credentials, unrelated medical records or other highly sensitive information that is not needed for the report.
Keep original evidence separately whenever possible. Evidence is generally collected through a separate Proton Drive upload link associated with a report reference rather than through the Netlify report form. A third-party upload service may process technical information according to its own privacy practices.
7. Security
We intend to use reasonable administrative, technical & physical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information collected and the scale of this tenant-organizing effort. Access should be limited, foreseeable risks should be reviewed, service-provider settings should be managed & information that is no longer reasonably needed should be disposed of appropriately.
No website, electronic transmission, cloud service or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. For that reason, do not submit information that is unnecessary to the organizing or documentation purpose.
8. Retention & Deletion
Retention depends on the record and why it exists:
- Contact-list information may be kept while the list remains active or until you opt out or ask for removal.
- Meeting-poll responses may be kept long enough to plan meetings, compare participation over time & preserve aggregate organizing history.
- Reports and evidence may be kept while reasonably needed for documentation, follow-up, advocacy, security, dispute, legal or record-integrity purposes.
- Analytics and provider records follow the configured retention settings and operational requirements of the relevant service.
- Browser-stored values remain until they expire, are cleared by the site or are cleared through your browser.
We intend to review Netlify form submissions, export records where appropriate & delete dashboard copies when they are no longer reasonably needed there.
You may ask us to review, correct or delete information you previously submitted. We will evaluate requests in good faith and respond where reasonably practicable or required by applicable law. A request may not result in immediate or complete deletion where information must reasonably be retained for security, legal, dispute, backup or record-integrity purposes.
9. Email & Text Updates
Submitting the Join The Tenant List form asks us to use the email address and optional phone number provided for tenant-coordination messages. Providing contact information only for follow-up on a tenant report does not automatically enroll you in general organizing updates; the report form provides separate optional email and text choices.
An automatic acknowledgment may confirm that a form was processed, but it does not mean a person has reviewed or verified the submission. Message frequency may vary and message/data rates may apply. You can withdraw text-message consent by replying STOP or contacting us, and you can leave the email list by contacting us at the address below.
10. Changes To This Policy
This policy may be updated as the site, organizing effort, service providers or information-handling practices change. The version, effective date & last-updated date will be revised when changes are posted. Where appropriate, additional notice or consent may be requested before materially different uses of previously submitted information.
Contact
Questions, privacy requests or concerns about submitted information can be sent to:
West47Tenants@proton.meInclude a report reference, if available, when asking us to locate a prior submission. This policy is informational and is not legal advice.
West 47th Street Tenants
Terms Of Use
These Terms govern use of West47Tenants.org, including tenant reports, organizing forms, submitted information & related site features.
1. Purpose Of This Site
West 47th Street Tenants is a resident-led tenant-organizing effort. The site provides information, helps tenants document housing conditions, collects organizing interest, supports communication among participating tenants & maintains records related to tenant advocacy.
These Terms apply when you use the site's forms or other interactive features. The tenant-report form requires affirmative acceptance. If you do not agree, do not submit information; you may still review the site's public resources.
2. Not Legal Advice Or Emergency Services
This site is not a law firm and does not provide legal representation or legal advice. Using the site or submitting information does not create an attorney-client relationship, legal privilege or another professional relationship.
The site is not an emergency service, building-management portal, 311, 911, HPD or another government service. Do not delay contacting emergency services, 311, your landlord, an attorney or another appropriate resource because you submitted information here.
A site submission does not stop or extend a legal, court, agency, lease or benefits deadline.
3. Public Information & Accuracy
The site may summarize public records, government data, court or agency materials, news reporting & tenant reports. Reasonable efforts may be made to identify sources and distinguish allegations, public records, reporting & tenant experience, but information may change, contain errors or become outdated.
A record concerning one building, owner, manager, company or court matter is not presented as proof about a different building, person or matter unless the cited source establishes that connection. Context placed near another record remains separate unless the site expressly says otherwise.
You should verify important information with the original source before relying on it for legal, administrative, financial or other consequential decisions.
4. Your Submissions
You are responsible for information you choose to submit. Do not knowingly submit false information, impersonate another person, submit material you are not reasonably authorized to provide, or use the site to harass, threaten or expose unrelated private information about another person.
A report reference or automated acknowledgment confirms only that the website processed a submission. It is not a government complaint number, legal filing, verification of the facts, promise of follow-up or proof that management, an agency, an attorney or another organization received notice.
You retain ownership of materials you submit. By submitting information or evidence, you give West 47th Street Tenants a non-exclusive permission to receive, store, review, reproduce, organize, redact, summarize & use the material as reasonably necessary for tenant organizing, documentation, administration, advocacy, security & related purposes described in these Terms and the Privacy & Confidentiality Policy.
This permission does not, by itself, authorize us to publicly identify you or publicly publish identifiable submitted material. Identifying information is handled according to the Privacy & Confidentiality Policy.
5. Aggregated & Redacted Information
West 47th Street Tenants may use aggregated, summarized, statistical, redacted or reasonably de-identified information derived from submissions to describe building conditions, identify patterns, communicate organizing priorities or support housing advocacy, provided unnecessary identifying information is not intentionally included.
6. Evidence Collection
Supporting evidence is generally collected separately from the Netlify report form. When appropriate and operationally available, you may receive a Proton Drive upload link associated with your report reference. An upload link is not guaranteed. Do not forward a link or use one assigned to another submission.
Preserve original files separately. Do not submit malicious files, passwords, Social Security numbers, bank credentials, unrelated medical records or other information that is not reasonably necessary for the housing issue being documented.
7. Prohibited Uses
- •Submitting knowingly false, fraudulent, threatening or malicious material.
- •Attempting to access another tenant's submission, private records, accounts or restricted systems without authorization.
- •Using the site, its forms or contact information to harass, intimidate, retaliate against or target tenants or organizers.
- •Uploading malware, scripts, destructive code or material intended to interfere with the site or another service.
- •Using automated scraping or bulk collection in a manner intended to identify, profile or target participating tenants.
8. Third-Party Services & Links
The site currently relies on Netlify for hosting, serverless functions and form processing; Cloudflare Turnstile for bot/human verification and, if enabled at the domain level, Cloudflare for DNS/security services; Google Analytics for site-use measurement; Proton for email and separate evidence transfer; and YouTube for embedded video. It may also link to government websites, public-record databases, news organizations and other platforms. Those services operate under their own terms, availability, security practices and privacy policies.
A link to a third-party source does not mean West 47th Street Tenants controls, endorses or guarantees everything on that service.
9. Site Availability & Changes
The site may be updated, corrected, reorganized, suspended or discontinued as the organizing effort changes. Features, public-data integrations, forms, links & content may not always be available.
The site uses noindex directives to discourage search indexing. Noindex is not access control, and anyone with the URL may be able to view public pages.
10. Disclaimer
The site is provided for tenant-organizing and informational purposes on an as-available basis. To the extent permitted by applicable law, West 47th Street Tenants does not guarantee that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, completely secure, or that every public record, third-party source or tenant submission will be complete or accurate.
11. Limitation Of Responsibility
To the extent permitted by applicable law, West 47th Street Tenants is not responsible for losses caused solely by reliance on incomplete or outdated informational content, the unavailability or conduct of third-party services, or use of the site in violation of these Terms. Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive rights or liability that cannot lawfully be waived.
12. Governing Law
These Terms are intended to be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without creating any agreement to mandatory arbitration or waiver of rights that would otherwise apply.
13. Changes To These Terms
These Terms may be updated as the site, organizing effort or operating practices change. The version, effective date & last-updated date shown on this page will be revised when changes are posted. Materially different uses of previously submitted information remain subject to the Privacy & Confidentiality Policy and applicable law.
Contact
Questions about these Terms can be sent to:
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