# 20-72 26 Street, Queens, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/4008700001/20-72-26-street-queens).
BBL 4008700001 · BIN 4019022 · Generated 2026-10-31

## Concern level: moderate

- 4 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 15 apartments
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)

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.

## Rent stabilization

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 60 stabilized units for 2023, of about 60 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 60, 2019: 60, 2020: 60, 2021: 60, 2022: 60, 2023: 60.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1949, 3 floors, 60 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

5 open (class C immediately hazardous: 4, class B hazardous: 1, class A non-hazardous: 0); 95 on record.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.
This tax lot has 6 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

## DOB building violations

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

## 311 housing complaints

22 in the last 12 months; 90 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (26), PAINT/PLASTER (16), GENERAL (12), HEAT/HOT WATER (12), WATER LEAK (9).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

1 cases on record, 0 open, 1 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- Agent: MARTIN KALT
- SiteManager: MARTIN KALT
- CorporateOwner: CENTRAL ASTORIA LLC
- HeadOfficer: MARTIN KALT

## 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/4008700001/20-72-26-street-queens