27-56 27 Street, Astoria, NY 11102
Built 1923 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments
4 immediately hazardous violations open. 8 open in all.
- Tenant reviews
- None yetLived here? Reviews open soon.
- Open violations
- 84 · 4
- Public record
- Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 0 | 0 |
Plus 8 violations from 2018 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Floors and stairs 1
- Open per apartment
- 1.3 (8 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 30 Oct 2022 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?Where each of these comes from
- 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.
Tenant reviews
Tenant-reportedNo tenant reviews yet. Lived here? Be the first.
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.
Not open yet. Reviews open when this neighbourhood does.
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.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 filingThis 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 violationImmediately hazardous4 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.
Provide ready access to buildings heating system door locked cellar at boiler room
Issued 3 Dec 2019Notice sent out 3 Dec 2019Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the entire apartment, 1st story
Issued 21 Mar 2019Notice sent out 21 Mar 2019Heat and hot water§ 27-2029
Provide ready access to buildings heating system locked door at first floor heading to cellar
Issued 21 Mar 2019Notice sent out 21 Mar 2019Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Remove the illegal fastening double cilynder key operated lock at door at fire passage way
Issued 13 Jan 2018Notice sent out 15 Jan 2018Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1
Hazardous4 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective vinyl floor tiles at public hall, 2nd story
Issued 30 Oct 2022Notice sent out 30 Oct 2022Floors and stairs§ 27-2005
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective,cracked, brick parapet wall, at north east section, at north
Issued 13 Jan 2018Notice sent out 15 Jan 2018Roof and outside the building§ 27-2005
Properly secure the loose wall light fixture, entrance to building, at front areaway
Issued 13 Jan 2018Notice sent out 15 Jan 2018Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Provide adequate lighting at 60 watts incandescent lighting, southeast section, south yard, at fire passage way
Issued 13 Jan 2018Notice sent out 15 Jan 2018Electrical§ 27-2037
Paperwork and notices16 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
×5Owner 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.
5 issued 3 Mar 2022 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 at public hall, 1st story
Issued 25 Oct 2022Notice sent out 25 Oct 2022Paperwork and notices§ 27-2045
Post and maintain a proper sign on wall of entrance story showing the registration number assigned by the department and the address of the building. at public hall, 1st story
Issued 25 Oct 2022Notice sent out 25 Oct 2022Paperwork and notices§ 27-2104
Post a proper notice of carbon monoxide detecting device requirements, in a form approved by the commissioner, in a common area of a class a multiple dwelling near inspection certificate or provide notice to tenants in a private dwelling.
Issued 25 Oct 2022Notice sent out 25 Oct 2022Paperwork and notices§ 27-2046.1
Post, in a form approved by the commissioner, and maintain a notice in a common area of the building regarding the procedures that should be followed when a gas leak is suspected
Issued 25 Oct 2022Notice sent out 25 Oct 2022Paperwork and notices§ 27-2005
Dept. rules and regs. provide a completed certificate of inspection visits in a proper frame at or near mailboxes, bottom edge of frame between 48-62 inches above floor.. at public hall, 1st story
Issued 25 Oct 2022Notice sent out 25 Oct 2022Paperwork and notices§ 329
1 closed violation, plus 7 closed paperwork filingsShow fewer
Closed means HPD recorded the violation as corrected, or dismissed it. Both appear here, because the difference matters and only HPD’s own status line says which it was.
Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the 2nd room from east at south, 3rd story
Issued 3 Dec 2019Violation closed 26 Dec 2019Heat and hot water§ 27-2029
32 violations on record in total, 24 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.
Complaints to the city
Public complaintComplaints 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.
2 complaints in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.
- Leaks and plumbing0 / 2
Last twelve months / last three years. The solid part of each bar is the last twelve months.
Court records
Court recordHousing 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.
1 case, all closed.
Heat and Hot Water
Opened 30 Dec 2019
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 filingBuilding 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 filingAssociations 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 2021 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
VINCENT BUFFA
Public records list VINCENT BUFFA as the owner of record for this address as of 26 Apr 2021. Source: HPD registration.
Other buildings listed under this owner (1 in the records we hold)
- 28-17 33 Street4 open violations · no reviews yet
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What to ask at the viewing
27-56 27 Street, Astoria, NY 11102
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.
- The city currently has 4 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.
- 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.
- 16 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.
- Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
- 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
Yes. HPD lists 8 open housing violations: 4 immediately hazardous, 4 hazardous and 0 non-hazardous. Paperwork filings, such as a late registration, are not counted.
Since 2022, HPD inspectors have written the most violations here for floors and stairs (1).
On 30 Oct 2022. HPD only publishes inspections that found something, so a later visit that found nothing would not show here.
It 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.
No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here in the 2025–26 heat season.
No residential evictions by a city marshal are recorded here since 2017.
Not yet. Reviews come from people who lived here, and none has been published for this building.
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