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30-40 44 Street, Astoria, NY 11103

Built 1928 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

No open housing violations. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
None openNo open housing violations on record.
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 11 violations before that, the first in 1989.

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Inspector last found a problem
18 Mar 2013 (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

Paperwork and notices4 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.

  • ×2File 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.

    2 issued 11 Jun 2025 to 6 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices

  • ×2Owner 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.

    2 issued 2 Dec 2024 to 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent outPaperwork and notices§ 27-2107

11 closed violations, plus 10 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.

  • 2011, 2012 adm code remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the rear yard

    Issued 29 Oct 2003Violation closed 2 Jan 2019Garbage and cleanliness§ 27-2010

  • And dept. rules and regulations. remove the encumbrance obstructing egress from fire escapes all stys rear stack.

    Issued 16 Oct 1990Violation closed 2 Jan 2019Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective fire reatarded clgs cellar rear.

    Issued 16 Oct 1990Violation closed 2 Jan 2019§ D26-10.01

  • Remove disused plumbing fixtures and properly seal pipe connections bathtub/ watercloset and washbasin intact at cellar

    Issued 18 Mar 2013Violation dismissed 18 Jul 2013Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color walls and ceiling in the entire apartment, 2nd story at south

    Issued 23 Jan 2012Violation closed 25 Mar 2013Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Replace with new the broken or defective wall cabinets in the kitchen, 2nd story at south

    Issued 23 Jan 2012Violation closed 25 Mar 2013Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Replace with new the broken or defective cabinet base in the kitchen, 2nd story at south

    Issued 23 Jan 2012Violation closed 25 Mar 2013Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing 1 sty an apartment tenant lee., section '' ''

    Issued 8 Jan 1989Violation closed 25 Mar 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Properly repair the broken or defective cabinet base in the kitchen, 2nd story at west

    Issued 25 Oct 2010Violation closed 18 Mar 2013Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Provide fire door at bottom of stair cellar.

    Issued 16 Oct 1990Violation closed 18 Mar 2013Doors and windows§ D26-10.01

  • 301, 302, m/d law file plans and obtain a certificate of occupancy to legalize the following alteration or restore premises to prior legal condition 3 finished rooms & bath at cellar front use as medical office.

    Issued 16 Oct 1990Violation closed 18 Mar 2013§ 300

25 violations on record in total, 4 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.

1 complaint in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Noise0 / 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.

2 cases, all closed.

  • Tenant Action

    Opened 28 Dec 2011

  • False Certification Non-Lead

    Opened 21 Mar 2011

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 permit currently in force. 2 permits filed in the last five years.

Show 2 expired or finished

  • Plumbing

    plumbing work at apartment 3R as per plans

    Issued 24 Oct 2022Expired 20 Jul 2023

  • General Construction

    INTERIOR RENOVATION PROPOSED AT APARTMENT 3R @ 3RD FLOOR. REMOVAL OF EXISTING AND NEW PARTITIONS AS PER PLANS, PLUMBING WORK AND MINOR ELECTRICAL WORK TO BE FILED UNDER SEPARATE APPLICATION

    Issued 1 Oct 2022Expired 14 Jan 2023

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.

  • 2024No infested units reported (2022 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 29 Sept 2024 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.

  • Registered managing agent

    CONSTANTINOS VASILOPOULOS

    Public records list CONSTANTINOS VASILOPOULOS as the registered managing agent for this address as of 1 Apr 2024. Source: HPD registration.

  • Owner of record

    MAGKA REALTY LLC

    Public records list MAGKA REALTY LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 1 Apr 2024. Source: HPD registration.

Wrong company, wrong date, or a change that is not reflected here? Report a correction.

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 owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2024). 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 4 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.
  4. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  5. 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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