NYC Foreclosure Auction Briefing — May 12, 2026

22 judicial foreclosure listings across four boroughs. One auction happening right now. Here's what bidders need to know before they walk into the courthouse.

Today's briefing covers every newly surfaced NYC foreclosure auction this cycle — spanning Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx — sorted by urgency, with risk flags, bidding logistics, and the borough price benchmarks you need to size a bid quickly. Staten Island has two active cases, but both are in the summons stage with no auction dates yet.

One thing to set expectations upfront: NYC judicial foreclosure notices do not publish opening bid amounts. The referee sets the floor at the time of sale based on the judgment. Lien amounts are published — and they're your primary valuation anchor — but the actual bid floor is a courthouse surprise. Plan accordingly.

Today at the courthouse

Manhattan Supreme Court, 60 Centre Street, Room 252 — 2:15 PM today.

The May 12 docket lists 10 active cases 1, two of which are marked "Not Held" (case nos. 105925/2008 and 850257/2024). The remaining cases involve properties in and around Harlem, the Upper West Side, and Midtown.

The docket lists party names but not property addresses — a persistent limitation of the Manhattan court calendar. What researchers can confirm is that defendants include Sugar Hill 473 LLC (case 850143/2024), West 125 Street Realty LLC (850311/2024), PFC Astor Row HDFC (850350/2024), and Philadelphia Community Services HDFC (850388/2024), suggesting a cluster of Harlem community-development and commercial properties.

The one listing with confirmed address details auctioning today:

81 West 119th Street, Harlem (Manhattan) — Duplex, 4,500 sq ft, 5 bed/3 bath 2

Built 1899, lot 0.04 acres
Cotality-estimated market value: $2,501,848
Case no. 00-161915 — the "00" prefix suggests an old case, potentially with a complex procedural history
Auction status: cleared, no stays or adjournments as of last check
Auction.com shows 1,507 views — moderately high interest

Risk assessment: Medium (incomplete). The estimated value gives a rough bid ceiling, but the lien amount is not disclosed on the Auction.com listing. With a case potentially originating around the year 2000, this could be a prolonged proceeding with intervening motions. PACER and NYSCEF checks are essential before bidding. You have until 2:15 PM.

81 West 119th Street, Harlem — auction today

Image from: Auction.com: 81 W 119th St

This week: May 13–20

Brooklyn — May 14, 2:30 PM

Kings County Supreme Court holds foreclosure auctions every Thursday at 2:30 PM, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn 3.

Three properties appear in the May 5 scan directory: 1043 East 84th Street, 1441 Troy Avenue, and 407 Bainbridge Street — all Brooklyn. Individual PDF filings were blocked by Cloudflare, so judgment amounts, case numbers, and referee details are not available for this issue. PropertyShark lists 77 upcoming Brooklyn foreclosure auctions total 4, suggesting the full docket is substantially larger than what appears in the scans directory alone.

Bidding logistics (Kings County standard): 10% deposit due immediately upon winning bid, in cash or certified/bank check made payable to the Referee. Terms of Sale must be signed on the spot. Closing within 30 days; extensions beyond 90 days require court approval. Defaulting bidders forfeit their deposit and may be barred from auctions for 60 days 5.

Queens — May 15, 10:00–11:00 AM

Two properties go to auction at Queens County Supreme Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica.

161-01 Baisley Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11434 6

Field	Detail
Property type	Likely single-family
Judgment	$452,386.22 plus interest and costs
Case	719251/2023, Queens County Supreme Court
Plaintiff	HSBC Bank USA, N.A. as Trustee for Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors 2007-A1
Referee	Martin Dehler, Esq.
Attorney	LOGS Legal Group LLP
Auction time	May 15, 2026, 11:00 AM
Block/Lot	12254/54

177-33 106th Road, Jamaica, NY 11433 7

Field	Detail
Property type	Duplex, 5 bed/3 bath, 1,600 sq ft, built 1930
Estimated market value	Not available (Cotality AVM could not produce estimate)
Case no.	16-235544 — likely filed circa 2016, now 9+ years in process
Auction time	May 15, 2026, 10:00 AM
Auction.com views	627

Risk assessment: High. The absence of an AVM estimate means complete valuation blindness going in. Jamaica zip 11433 sits in Queens' highest-volume foreclosure zone — zip codes 11412 and 11413 each recorded 12 new foreclosure filings in Q1 2026 alone 8. A 1,600 sq ft property with 5 bedrooms raises a practical question: are these legal bedrooms, or does the layout reflect unpermitted conversion? Worth pulling DOB BIS records before bidding. The 9-year case history also means there may be pending motions or title complications not visible from the auction notice.

Image from: Auction.com: 177-33 106th Rd

Bronx — May 20, 11:15 AM (not at a courthouse)

601 Pelham Parkway North, Unit 319, Bronx, NY 10467 — cooperative apartment 9

This is a UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) sale — not a judicial foreclosure. The sale covers 222 shares of cooperative stock and the associated proprietary lease, held by defaulting shareholder Cornelia Peterson.

Amount due: $28,448.45 for maintenance, assessments, and charges
Auction venue: Finger & Finger law office, 158 Grand Street, White Plains, NY 10601 — not the courthouse
Deposit: 10% of bid or total sums due, whichever is greater; check payable to Finger & Finger as escrow agent
Attorney: Finger & Finger, A Professional Corporation, (914) 949-0308

Co-op auctions carry distinct risks compared to condo or house foreclosures. The buyer acquires shares, not a deed. The co-op board retains the right to approve or reject the incoming shareholder — a winning bidder who fails board approval has no claim to the unit. Verify board approval policy with Finger & Finger before bidding. Maintenance arrears beyond the $28K listed may also exist; request the co-op's financial statements.

Auction calendar: May 19 through June 9

Manhattan — May 19 (five condos, one day)

All five auctions on May 19 take place at New York County Supreme Court, Room 252, 60 Centre Street, 2:15 PM. This is the busiest single day in the current pipeline.

Address	Type	Judgment	Plaintiff	Referee	Case
635 W 42nd St, Unit 15J 10	Condo	$570,028.95	U.S. Bank / Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust	Paul R. Sklar, Esq.	850111/2020
200 E 94th St, Unit 2012 (Carnegie Park) 11	Condo	$755,529.61	MCLP Asset Company	Paul Sklar, Esq.	850624/2023
200 E 66th St, Unit B1503 (Manhattan House) 12	Condo	$2,281,311.48	U.S. Bank Trust / Velocity 2023-2	Elaine Shay, Esq.	850652/2023
354 Bowery, Unit 3 13	Condo (commercial/mixed)	$1,197,719.00	Stormfield SPV IV, LLC	Sofia Balile, Esq.	850019/2025

Note on payment: the Carnegie Park (200 E 94th) notice specifically states certified bank check only, payable to referee — cash not accepted 11.

354 Bowery, Unit 3 warrants attention: located in NoHo, the judgment ($1.2M) is relatively modest, but the defendant is a LLC (Bowery Shed LLC) and the plaintiff is a special-purpose vehicle. Commercial condos in this zip code trade at significant premiums. The undivided 16% interest in common elements should be confirmed against the offering plan to verify unit boundaries.

Queens — May 22

Both Queens May 22 auctions are at Queens County Supreme Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 10:00 AM.

150-39 108th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11433 14

Judgment: $562,542.51 | Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | Referee: Alan Kestenbaum, Esq.
Case 703601/2021 | Block 10132, Lot 54

87-25 Kingston Place, Jamaica, NY 11432 15

Judgment: $764,168.69 | Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA, N.A. | Referee: Nicole Katsorhis, Esq.
Case 703413/2014 — judgment entered March 17, 2017, meaning this case has been in the system for approximately 9 years. Prolonged timelines of this length are common in New York (average foreclosure timeline: 1,911 days statewide 16), but 9 years raises the probability of intervening complications — check NYSCEF for any post-judgment motions.

June 2 — Manhattan cluster

All at Room 252 (or portico), 60 Centre Street, 2:15 PM.

240 Riverside Boulevard, Unit 10A (The Heritage at Trump Place) 17

Lien: $5,673,292.89 | Plaintiff: Citimortgage | Referee: Thomas Kleinberger, Esq. | Case 850110/2019

20 West 84 Street, Unit 1B (The 20 West 84 Condominium) 18

Common charge lien: $60,465.24 — this is a condo board foreclosure, not a mortgage foreclosure. The plaintiff is the Board of Managers, not a bank. Defendant is Future iService LLC and Citibank. Undivided 2.127% common interest. Referee: Doron Leiby, Esq. | Case 155562/2025.
Winning bidder takes subject to any existing mortgage on the unit. Pull ACRIS records before bidding.

30/40 East 9th Street and 21 University Place (three commercial condo parcels, sold together) 19

Plaintiff: VOYA Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company | Defendant: Uniway Partners, L.P.
Combined undivided interests: 27.84% + 16.87% in respective common elements
Judgment entered March 30, 2026 — a fresh judgment

102 West 57th Street (timeshare interest) 20

This is a floating-use timeshare interest (studio penthouse, every year), not a whole unit. Lien: $33,293.32. Plaintiff: 57th St. Vacation Owners Association. The undivided common interest is 0.009864%. Timeshare resale markets are typically illiquid — bid with caution and a very clear exit strategy.

438 East 87th Street (Yorkville townhouse) — see Featured Listings section below.

June 5 — Queens

11150 140th Street, Jamaica, NY 11435 21

Judgment: $829,483.10 | Plaintiff: U.S. Bank as Trustee for SABR 2006-WM1 | Referee: Autrey G. Johnson, Esq.
Auction.com or (800) 280-2832 for pre-auction questions. Queens County Supreme Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 11:00 AM.

June 9 — Two Manhattan anchors

145 Allen Street, Manhattan (commercial/mixed-use building) 22

Judgment: $2,682,806.98 | Plaintiff: U.S. Bank as Trustee for Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities 2018-SB57 | Referee: Sofia Balile, Esq. | Case 850259/2025 | Block 415, Lot 22
Venue: Room posted outside Room 130, 60 Centre Street

60 Columbus Circle, Office Unit-A2 23

Judgment: $35,859,621.49 — the largest single foreclosure in this entire pipeline
Plaintiff: SIG CRE 2023 Venture LLC | Defendant: Area Columbus LLC | Referee: Jeffrey R. Miller, Esq. | Case 850432/2024 | Block 1049, Lot 1242, undivided 1.1634% interest in common elements
Judgment entered April 3, 2026 — less than 6 weeks ago
This is a commercial office condo in the Time Warner Center complex. The scale puts it outside the reach of individual homebuyers; institutional or private-equity buyers would be the likely field.

Featured listings: risk deep-dives

438 East 87th Street, Yorkville, Manhattan — June 2

Image from: Northgate Real Estate Group

The headline number: $14,247,156 lien — the largest residential foreclosure by lien amount headed to auction in New York in Q2 2026 24.

The property is a 4,800 sq ft Italianate townhouse built in 1901 — 20 feet wide, three stories plus garden level, currently configured as 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Northgate Real Estate Group has been retained to market the foreclosure sale and describes it as "a beautifully maintained 1901 Italianate brownstone" with development potential. R8B zoning allows an additional 4,200 sq ft of floor area, which is the real pitch to investors.

Valuation context: Manhattan townhouse median sale price was $6,000,000 in April 2026 (18 transactions) 25. The Yorkville neighborhood median was $1,120,380 — that figure reflects the broader condo market, not townhouses, so it understates the comparable floor. A renovation-ready Yorkville townhouse with 4,200 sq ft of remaining development rights could plausibly command $7M–$9M from a developer-buyer; a straight residential buyer would face a thinner market.

Key risk: the $14.25M lien almost certainly exceeds market value for this property as a single-family home. The viable buyer is someone pricing in the development potential. If the referee sets the opening bid near the judgment amount, third-party bidding becomes unlikely and the property may revert to the lender. Watch whether the referee applies a credit bid or sets a lower floor.

769 East 19th Street, Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn — May 7 (rescheduled)

A two-family frame house, 2,208 sq ft, built 1901, on a 6,000 sq ft lot in Fiske Terrace — one of the more stable south Brooklyn neighborhoods, with B/Q subway service at Avenue H, 0.21 miles away 26.

Lien: $1,640,192
DOF assessed market value (2025/26): $1,471,000
Property taxes: $12,351 — current, no lien flag
FEMA flood zone: X (minimal flood risk)
Hurricane evacuation zone: 6

Recent comparable sales: 819 E 19th Street (2,810 sq ft) sold for $1,608,888 in June 2025; 1901 Avenue H (2,686 sq ft) sold for $2,100,000 in February 2026 26. Those comps put estimated market value in the $1.8M–$2.2M range — above the lien amount. That's the good news.

The complications: this is a rescheduled auction, which means prior postponements have already occurred. The case was rescheduled from an earlier date, signaling possible ongoing borrower negotiations or court scheduling delays. Frame construction from 1901 brings elevated insurance and maintenance exposure. The 2024 sale date visible on PropertyShark has a hidden price, suggesting a recent change of ownership that may affect chain of title. Pull DOB BIS for any open violations before bidding.

Risk assessment: Medium. The lien is manageable relative to neighborhood comps, but the rescheduled status and 125-year-old wood frame warrant careful physical inspection.

252-47 Leith Road, Little Neck, Queens — May 1 (first-time)

A one-story, 1,400 sq ft ranch house built in 1960 on a 4,403 sq ft lot in Little Neck — a relatively quiet Queens neighborhood near the Nassau County line 27.

Lien: $1,961,300
DOF assessed market value (2025/26): $887,000
Last recorded sale: July 1, 2004 at $835,000 — no recorded sale in 22 years
Permits on file: zero

The lien-to-assessed-value ratio here is 221%. Neighborhood comps give a better picture than the DOF assessment: 252-25 Leith Road (2,632 sq ft) sold for $1,739,900 in December 2025; 51-27 Browvale Lane (2,458 sq ft) sold for $1,510,000 in February 2026 27. The Little Neck median is just $450,000, but those comps are larger homes — estimated market value for this 1,400 sq ft ranch is likely in the $950K–$1.1M range.

The lien at $1.96M substantially exceeds that range. Unless there are unreported subordinate liens inflating the debt, this looks like an overleveraged legacy loan. PropertyShark designated it the second-priciest Queens foreclosure for Q2 2026. Any third-party bid approaching the lien amount would start underwater — the math only works if the property sells well below the $1.96M judgment. No permits on file for six decades may mean deferred maintenance or unpermitted alterations. Walk the property first.

Risk assessment: High. The lien-to-value gap is severe. A winning bid at any reasonable market price still leaves the lender with a significant deficiency — which may reduce lender motivation to accept a low third-party bid over reverting to REO.

Borough price benchmarks (April 2026)

Use these to sanity-check any bid relative to the surrounding market 28.

Borough	Median $/sq ft	YoY change	Median sale price	Notes
Manhattan	$1,433	−0.9%	$1,255,000	Condos $1,700,000; co-ops $900,000; houses $6,000,000
Brooklyn	$875	−5.4%	$850,000	Houses $939,000; condos $1,100,000
Queens	$691	+2.3%	$610,000	Houses $820,000; co-ops $333,000
Bronx	$414	+13.1%	$370,000	Fastest-appreciating borough
Staten Island	$467	+6.1%	$677,500	Houses $719,000

Citywide median: $795,000 (+6% YoY), 2,386 transactions in April.

The Bronx stands out: median price grew 19.4% year-over-year to $370,000 in April 2026, with transaction volume up 79.2% 29. That's the fastest appreciation of any borough — a useful counterweight to the high foreclosure volume there. Properties with liens exceeding current market value may see that gap narrow faster in the Bronx than elsewhere.

Quarterly context: Q1 2026 saw 399 first-time foreclosure filings citywide, down 3% year-over-year — but the borough split is striking. Eliza Theiss of PropertyShark put it plainly: "Behind a deceptively mild citywide downtick, borough foreclosure markets pulled into significantly diverging paths as Brooklyn cases were nearly halved and the Bronx hit a new, record high." 8

Borough	Q1 2026 filings	YoY change
Queens	167	Flat
Bronx	67	+24% (post-pandemic record)
Staten Island	58	+123%
Brooklyn	62	−45%
Manhattan	45	−17%

Brooklyn's 45% drop is not necessarily a sign of market health — it may reflect the January 2026 New York Court of Appeals ruling that the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA) applies retroactively, effectively invalidating certain time-barred cases that plaintiffs had tried to revive 30. That same ruling has implications for any older case (pre-2022) currently moving through the system — worth checking the case filing date before bidding on a property with an unusually dated case number.

Regulatory and logistics snapshot

Tax lien sales: paused through October 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order on April 24, 2026, pausing all NYC tax lien sales for six months — covering both Department of Finance property tax liens and DEP water/sewer liens 31 32.

The practical effect: no new tax lien sales will feed the foreclosure pipeline this cycle. The NYC Independent Budget Office reduced projected revenue by $80 million in the preliminary budget to account for the pause 33. The administration simultaneously established the city's first Office of Deed Theft Prevention, housed in the Department of Finance and led by Peter White, formerly of Access Justice Brooklyn. City Council passed legislation in January 2026 to replace the private Tax Lien Trust with a city land bank by 2029.

For buyers watching the pipeline: the pause means no new municipal lien-foreclosure auctions will appear in the near term. The current inventory is entirely court-supervised judicial foreclosures — the same type covered in this briefing.

Standard NYC foreclosure auction terms

Unless otherwise stated in the individual notice, the following terms apply across Manhattan and Brooklyn 5:

Deposit: 10% of winning bid, in cash or certified/bank check payable to the Referee, due immediately at the auction
Bid assignment: prohibited — you cannot flip the winning bid to a third party
Closing: within 30 days; extensions beyond 90 days require court approval
Default: forfeiture of deposit plus potential 60-day bidding suspension and liability for any resale shortfall
Redemption: New York is a judicial foreclosure state with no statutory right of redemption after the sale closes. The sale is final.
Bankruptcy risk: a bankruptcy filing before the sale date triggers an automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362, halting the auction. PACER checks should be part of any pre-bid due diligence.

Staten Island — pre-auction stage only

Two Richmond County foreclosure actions are in the court record, but neither has an auction date:

69 Armstrong Avenue (case 135342/2025) — mortgage $259,671, plaintiff loanDepot.com, defendant Frank Azzato (deceased). Summons stage 34.
27 McDermott Avenue (case 135120/2025) — mortgage $320,000, plaintiff J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., defendant Arthur Connelly (deceased). Supplemental summons filed April 24, 2026 35.

Both involve deceased defendants requiring service on unknown heirs, which typically extends the pre-auction timeline by months. Monitor for judgment entries.

Next auction to watch: Manhattan, May 19 — five condos in a single afternoon, including a $2.28M judgment at Manhattan House (200 E 66th St) and a Bowery NoHo condo at $1.2M. That's a full day's work for anyone seriously considering a bid.

Cover image: Harlem brownstones at 81 West 119th Street — auction today. Image from Auction.com: 81 W 119th St