- Signature Bank
- Capital One
- Customers Bank
- JPMorgan Chase
- New York Community Bank
- Dime Community Bank
- Investors Bank
- Peapack-Gladstone Bank
- Deutsche Bank
- Astoria Bank
We chose to conduct our analysis on 8 of these 10 banks, excluding JPMorgan Chase and Capital One as the only two national banks with assets of greater than fifty billion dollars. Our team calculated two indicators aimed at characterizing a property owner's relationship to these banks: the percent of loan sheets in a portfolio with one of these banks as the underwriter, and the percent of buildings in the portfolio with at least one loan underwritten by one of these banks. These indicators were compared to a city-wide baseline: the percent of loan sheets for all residential buildings in NYC with one of these banks as the underwriter and the percent of all residential buildings in NYC with at least one loan underwritten by one of these banks. The higher the percent of loan sheets and buildings related to these banks known to support predatory landlords, the more likely it is that the portfolio in question contains predatory property investments motivating tactics of harassment to achieve enough return to be profitable.