# 42-40 Bowne Street, Queens, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/4051850043/42-40-bowne-street-queens).
BBL 4051850043 · BIN 4117142 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: high

- 15 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 5 apartments
- 11 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 2 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 22 active DOB violation(s)
- 1 eviction executed in the last 3 years
- 2 OATH/ECB fines lost by default (unpaid)

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 8 stabilized units for 2023, of about 77 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 12, 2019: 11, 2020: 11, 2021: 10, 2022: 10, 2023: 8.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1956, 6 floors, 77 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

63 open (class C immediately hazardous: 15, class B hazardous: 25, class A non-hazardous: 22); 69 on record.
11 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
2 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

22 active (3 issued in the last 3 years); 54 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

5 active of 25 on record; 2 decided by default; $13,055 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

11 in the last 12 months; 16 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (6), FLOORING/STAIRS (4), GENERAL (2), PLUMBING (2), UNSANITARY CONDITION (2).

## Bedbugs

4 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 1 infested unit.

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

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

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: Bowne House Owners Corp.
- Agent: CLS Properties Management, Inc.
- HeadOfficer: YiMin Gao
- Officer: YinChau Tsang
- SiteManager: ChunTung So

## 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/4051850043/42-40-bowne-street-queens