# 43-08 40 Street, Queens, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/4001900025/43-08-40-street-queens).
BBL 4001900025 · BIN 4002499 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: severe

- On HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program — the city's most-distressed-buildings list
- 45 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 71 apartments
- 43 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 3 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 1 active DOB violation(s)
- 1 eviction executed in the last 3 years

Scale: low, moderate, high, severe. Set from open hazardous violations relative to building size, raised by distress signals (HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program, court harassment findings, evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, a sold tax lien). It describes the public record, not any one apartment.

## HPD Alternative Enforcement Program

Currently on AEP, the city's most-distressed-buildings program, since 2026-02-02.

## Rent stabilization

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 49 stabilized units for 2023, of about 71 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 51, 2019: 49, 2020: 49, 2021: 49, 2022: 49, 2023: 49.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1931, 6 floors, 71 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

169 open (class C immediately hazardous: 45, class B hazardous: 98, class A non-hazardous: 25); 587 on record.
43 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
3 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

1 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 23 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

0 active of 15 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

35 in the last 12 months; 211 on record.
Most common: PAINT/PLASTER (62), UNSANITARY CONDITION (42), DOOR/WINDOW (25), WATER LEAK (19), HEAT/HOT WATER (15).

## Bedbugs

8 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

1 executed in the last 3 years; 3 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

6 cases on record, 0 open, 6 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## City debt and tax-lien sale

On a tax-lien sale list in 2025 (10-day notice), water/sewer debt only.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 43-08 40TH STREET, LLC
- Agent: BRIAN GARLAND
- HeadOfficer: MARGARET BRUNN

The same owner is linked to 97 other buildings (MARGARET BRUNN at 40 WEST 57TH STREET).

## Sources and limits

NYC Open Data (HPD, DOB, OATH/ECB, 311, DOF, PLUTO) and NYS DHCR building lists. This is a screening signal from public records, not legal advice; records lag and contain errors. Full interactive report with violation details and maps: https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/4001900025/43-08-40-street-queens