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23-40 31 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106

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

2 immediately hazardous violations open. 19 open in all.

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Open violations
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Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 19 violations before that, the first in 1988.

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Open per apartment
3.2 (19 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
29 Dec 2011 (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

No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here last winter (2025–26). That is the city's record: it only holds what somebody reported.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26000

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

This building is not on the state's list of buildings with rent-stabilized apartments for 2024. That is not proof none are: an owner who did not register is missing from the list too.

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.

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of scalding hot water at temperature 160 * f at bathroom and kitchen in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 29 Dec 2011Notice sent out 2 Jan 2012Heat and hot water§ 27-2005 +1

  • Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to building's heating system notice missing 1 sty pub hall.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ D26-17.10

Hazardous14 open

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

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of hot water bypassing into cold side of faucets bathroom and kitchen fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 29 Dec 2011Notice certified late 6 Feb 2013Heat and hot water§ 27-2005 +1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 29 Dec 2011Notice certified late 6 Feb 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules. in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 29 Dec 2011Notice certified late 6 Feb 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Provide adequate supply of cold water for the fixtures low water pressure to fixtures in the bathroom, 3rd story

    Issued 18 Oct 2007Notice certified late 26 Dec 2007§ 27-2024

  • Provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules. in the entire apartment, 3rd story

    Issued 18 Oct 2007Notice certified late 26 Dec 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Dept. rules and regulations. remove the encumbrance obstructing egress from fire escapes 2 sty rear stack.

    Issued 20 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective masonry ceiling south passageway rear.

    Issued 20 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair the broken or defective paving cellar boiler room.

    Issued 20 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective fire retarding ceiling at cellar front.

    Issued 20 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Dept. rules and regulations. remove the encumbrance obstructing egress from fire escapes consisting of flower pots 2 sty rear stack.

    Issued 20 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

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  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of west court & west fire passage.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of bldg material kitchen sink west court & rear yard.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors pub hall bulkhead.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing at 1 sty front apartment

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1

Non-hazardous3 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.

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration sheet rock & stud partition forming room cellar rear.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008§ 300

  • Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department walls 2 to 3 sty & 3 sty to bulkhead pub hall.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-12.01

  • Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department ceiling all stys public hall.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-12.01

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.

  • ×3File 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.

    3 issued 12 Apr 2024 to 6 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices

  • ×3Owner 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.

    3 issued 24 Nov 2023 to 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent outPaperwork and notices§ 27-2107

  • Post a proper notice of smoke detector requirements, in a form approved by the commissioner, at or near the mail box notice missing 1 sty pub hall.

    Issued 11 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Paperwork and notices§ D26-20.08

32 violations on record in total, 26 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.

No complaints from this building in the last three years. Worth knowing what that does and does not mean: tenants who expect nothing to happen often stop calling.

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.

  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
Show 1 earlier report
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 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 2023 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

    NICHOLAS DROBENKO

    Public records list NICHOLAS DROBENKO as the owner of record for this address as of 18 Dec 2022. Source: HPD registration.

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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. The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2023). Ask when the building was last treated, how often an exterminator comes, and whether treatment covers the whole line of apartments or only the one that complained.
  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.
  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

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