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31-52 36 Street, Astoria, NY 11106

Built 1922 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

1 immediately hazardous violation open. 8 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
81 · 5 · 2
Public record
Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 9 violations before that, the first in 1987.

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Open per apartment
1.3 (8 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
14 Dec 2020 (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

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 hazardous1 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.

  • Remove the illegal fastening a double cylinder key operated lock installed at the door in the entrance, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1

Hazardous5 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 electric outlet on west wall in the 3rd room from east at north, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Electrical§ 27-2005

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). missing, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Properly repair the broken or defective electric outlet on west wall in the 4th room from east, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Electrical§ 27-2005

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of locked door yard to cellar obstr egress from rear fire escape to street.

    Issued 21 Jul 1987Notice sent out 13 Aug 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01

Non-hazardous2 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 plaster board & wood stud partitions erected cellar front creating two rooms.

    Issued 21 Jul 1987Notice sent out 13 Aug 2008Walls and ceilings§ 300

  • Remove device preventing door from being self-closing wall stairs bulkhead.

    Issued 17 Jul 1987Notice sent out 13 Aug 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

Paperwork and notices2 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.

  • Post and maintain a proper notice on wall of the entrance story in english and spanish on the availability of the agencys housing information guide. a sample notice can be found at www.nyc.gov/hpd. at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Paperwork and notices§ 26-1103

  • 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 at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Notice sent out 15 Dec 2020Paperwork and notices§ 27-2005

1 closed violation, plus 1 closed paperwork filings

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.

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors.. in the entrance, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2020Violation closed 24 Feb 2021Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

12 violations on record in total, 10 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.

  • 2025No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 6 earlier reports
  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2020No infested units reported (2019 report)
  • 2019No infested units reported (2017 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.

  • Registered managing agent

    MELISSA FERNANDEZ

    Public records list MELISSA FERNANDEZ as the registered managing agent for this address as of 9 Jul 2025. Source: HPD registration.

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

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  • Owner of record

    31-52 36 STREET LLC

    Public records list 31-52 36 STREET LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 9 Jul 2025. 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 one open immediately-hazardous violation on this building. Ask which apartment it concerns, whether it has been corrected, and when HPD re-inspects.
  2. The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2025). 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. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  4. 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 4006480062 · Block 648, Lot 62 · Building class C2