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23-20 29 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11102

Built 1927 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

2 immediately hazardous violations open. 23 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
232 · 17 · 4
Public record
Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 23 violations before that, the first in 1988.

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Open per apartment
3.8 (23 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
23 Mar 2021 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?
Tenant-reported
A resident's firsthand account of living here, moderated before it publishes, and labelled with whether we verified they lived there.
Official violation
A city inspector visited and recorded a code violation. HPD's own words, and its own hazard class.
Public complaint
A complaint somebody made to a city system, through HPD or 311. A report, not a finding: nobody has necessarily inspected it.
Public filing
A permit, a registration, a bedbug report: a document the owner filed with the city because the law requires it.
Court record
A Housing Court case HPD brought against the owner, or an eviction a city marshal carried out. A court's record: a case is an allegation until it ends in a finding.
Insufficient data
Not enough current information here to infer a pattern either way.

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Nothing above this section came from a tenant. It is all filed by the city, which means it only holds what somebody reported and an inspector wrote down, not what it is actually like to live here.

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Heat season

Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 3 days.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26340

The rules, 1 October to 31 May: from 6am to 10pm, when it is below 55°F outside, the apartment must be at least 68°F; overnight it must be at least 62°F whatever the weather. Hot water must be at least 120°F all year. A tenant without heat can report it to 311.

Rent stabilization

Public filing

The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments, or how many.

Source: Rent Guidelines Board building list, from the state's 2024 registrations. To know about one apartment, a tenant can ask the state for its rent history through Ask HCR.

City violations

Official violation

Immediately hazardous2 open

Class C. HPD considers the condition an immediate danger: no heat in winter, no hot water, lead paint where a child lives, a broken lock on the front door. The owner has 24 hours to correct it.

  • Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to buildings heating system at 1 sty pub hall and cellar door.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Device present on central heating system which is capable of causing an otherwise operable system to become inoperable day temperature set at 50 degrees night set at 20 degrees on boiler.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Heat and hot water§ 27-2029

Hazardous17 open

Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.

  • Properly repair the broken or defective mail boxes at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 23 Mar 2021Notice certified late 7 Jun 2021§ 27-2005

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing 3 sty an apartment tenant popouie., section '' ''

    Issued 10 Feb 1997Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Provide adequate lighting at cellar boiler room.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Heat and hot water§ 27-2037

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective wood lockside door jamb entrance door 2 sty rear an apartment.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of exposed electric wires at cellar front section.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Electrical§ 27-2005 +1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of vermin mice thruout 2 sty an apartment.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Pests§ 27-2018

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing at 2 sty rear an apartment tenant mr castro.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Provide adequate lighting at cellar.

    Issued 30 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Electrical§ 27-2037

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of concealed leak at center room ceiling 1 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 14 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005 +1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector which is missing at 1 sty an apartment tenant mrs mercardo., section '' ''

    Issued 14 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

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  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color walls and ceiling of center room and bathroom 1 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 14 Dec 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of households itema at bulkhead of pub hall stairs.

    Issued 24 Mar 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination 1 and 2 sty pub hall.

    Issued 24 Mar 1994Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Electrical§ 27-2039

  • Remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the cellar thruout.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Garbage and cleanliness§ D26-11.01 +2

  • Properly secure the loose marble nosing of stair at 2 sty pub hall.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Floors and stairs§ 27-2005

  • 2011, 2012 adm code remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the disused radiator etc top landing cellar stairs.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ 27-2010

  • Discontinue the storage of combustible material mattress cellar rear.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008§ 12

Non-hazardous4 open

Class A. The least serious band: chipped plaster, a missing cabinet, a peeling ceiling in a hallway. The owner has 90 days to correct it.

  • Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department ceiling center room 3 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 1 Mar 1997Notice sent out 20 Aug 2007Walls and ceilings§ 27-2013

  • Properly repair the broken or defective dumbwaiter doors not openable pub hall all stys.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ D26-10.01

  • Refit doors top & bottom of stairs enclosure 1 sty pub hall to cellar.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Refit doors top & bottom of stairs enclosure 1 sty pub hall to cellar.

    Issued 20 Sept 1988Notice sent out 25 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ D26-10.01

Paperwork and notices7 open

The owner failed to file something the city requires, most often the annual property registration or the annual bedbug report. Real violations, and they say something about an owner, but not a condition anyone is living in. Kept out of the count at the top of this page for that reason.

  • ×6File annual bedbug report in accordance with hpd rule as described on the back of this notice of violation or as described on hpds website, www.nyc.gov\hpd, search bed bugs.

    6 issued 14 Apr 2021 to 6 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices

  • Owner failed to file a valid registration statement with the department as required by adm code §27-2097 and is therefore subject to civil penalties, prohibited from certifying violations, and denied the right to recover possession of premises for nonpayment of rent until a valid registration statement is filed.

    Issued 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent out 20 Nov 2025Paperwork and notices§ 27-2107

36 violations on record in total, 30 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.

Complaints to the city

Public complaint

Complaints are reports made to the city. They are not confirmed findings. They come from HPD and from 311, and the same problem can appear more than once if more than one neighbour called.

7 complaints in three years, 5 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Heat and hot water2 / 4
  • Noise2 / 2
  • Pests1 / 1

Last twelve months / last three years. The solid part of each bar is the last twelve months.

Court records

Court record

Housing Court cases

Cases the city’s housing department (HPD) brought against the owner, usually to force repairs or restore heat. A case is an allegation; where the court recorded an outcome, it is shown.

No HPD Housing Court cases on record for this building.

Evictions

Residential evictions carried out by a city marshal since 2017. Most follow a case for unpaid rent, so a count here is not by itself a finding about the building or the landlord. We show how many, never which apartment.

No marshal evictions recorded at this building since 2017.

Filings

Public filing

Building permits

No DOB permits filed for this building in the last five years.

Annual bedbug report

Every multiple dwelling in New York must file this once a year. A report of zero infested units is good news. No report is not: failing to file is itself a violation.

No bedbug report on file for this building. That usually means the owner did not file one, not that there is nothing to report.

Ownership and management

Public filing

Associations come from registration records and may be incomplete. Owners register with HPD once a year, so a change of hands can go unrecorded for a full cycle.

The most recent registration on file for this address expired 31 Aug 2025 and has not been renewed since, so it is more than a full cycle old. Whoever is named below may no longer be responsible for the building.

  • Owner of record and managing agent

    GEORGE SAKELLIS

    Public records list GEORGE SAKELLIS as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 24 Sept 2024. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this owner and agent (1 in the records we hold)

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What to ask at the viewing

Drawn from this building’s record above. They are questions, not conclusions: the point is to find out, in the twenty minutes you get inside, what the public record cannot tell you.

  1. The city currently has 2 open immediately-hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern, how many are in the one you would be renting, and when HPD re-inspects.
  2. Leaks and plumbing come up on this building's record. Ask which apartments were affected and whether the cause was ever found: 0 complaints in the last twelve months.
  3. The building's HPD registration is out of date or names nobody we could identify. Ask who the managing agent is and get a name, a phone number and an address in writing before you sign.
  4. 7 open violations for not filing something the city requires, usually the annual registration or the annual bedbug report. Nothing anyone lives in, but it is the record's plainest measure of whether this owner follows through. No bedbug report has ever been filed here, so the record cannot tell you the building's history — ask.
  5. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  6. Ask who to call when something breaks, what happens after hours and at weekends, and how long a repair normally takes.

Ask for anything that matters in writing; an email after the viewing is enough. We are not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Questions about this building

BBL 4005480024 · Block 548, Lot 24 · Building class C2