153-27 73 Avenue

Queens, NY

BBL 4-06803-0002BIN 4455534Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

0154 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 2 apartments
0249 of those issued in the last 3 years
0321 open rent-impairing violation(s)
049 evictions executed in the last 3 years

How this is set: open hazardous violations measured against the building's size, then raised by strong distress signals — HPD's enforcement program, court harassment findings, recent evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, and a sold tax lien. Neighborhood noise and crime are not part of it. It describes the public record, not the condition of any one apartment, and a quiet record is not proof of a good building.

Rent regulation

Likely rent-stabilized

The owner registered 119 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 119 apartments.

2018 — 119 units registered2023 — 119

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

Registration counts apply to the building, not to unit numbers. To confirm your own apartment, request your rent history from New York State Homes and Community Renewal — it is free and takes a few weeks.

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Rent regulation

The building

1950

Built

Floors

119

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building69 others linked to the same owner

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

On record

Open Class C

Open Class B

Open Class A

Class C is immediately hazardous, Class B is hazardous, Class A is non-hazardous. A violation stays open until HPD certifies the repair, so some open items may already be fixed. HPD writes a separate violation for each room or spot, so one inspection can produce several near-identical entries; those are grouped below by apartment and date. This tax lot has 10 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2BIssued 2026-08-14

§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE HINGES IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 2BIssued 2026-08-144 violations

§ 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT CEILING IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
§ 27-2045(B)(1)(A) HMC, § 12-01, § 12-03 RCNY REPAIR, REPLACE OR PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL SMOKE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS RULES AND REGULATIONS MISSING IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

2 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2045(B)(1)(B) HMC, § 12-06, § 12-07, § 12-09 RCNY REPAIR, REPLACE OR PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND RULES MISSING IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
§ 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 2B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSApt 1AIssued 2026-04-02

§ 27-2017.3 HMC: TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE VISIBLE MOLD CONDITION... GREATER THAN 10 SQ.FT AT CEILING EAST AND WEST WALL IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 1A LOWER LEVEL, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH

Status: Defect letter issued

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2025-09-05

§ 27-2017.3 HMC: TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE VISIBLE MOLD CONDITION... LESS THAN 10SQ FEET AT EAST WALL AT PUBLIC HALL, 2nd STORY ORIGINAL VIOLATION 17878237 ISSUED 07-MAY-25 HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO CLASS B PER ADMINISTRATIVE CODE 27-2017.3a(3)(a) or (b).

Status: Defect letter issued

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

594

All time

237

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water125

Unsanitary Condition117

Paint/Plaster75

Plumbing57

General52

Door/Window37

Water Leak36

Appliance29

Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

230

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential200

Street/Sidewalk11

Unspecified8

Vehicle6

House of Worship3

Park2

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. This counts how often people call 311, which tracks how densely populated and busy an area is as much as how loud it is — it is not a sound measurement.

Neighborhood noise

Neighborhood crime

Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

140

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony41

Misdemeanor73

Violation26

NYPD complaints reported within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year, by severity. This reflects what gets reported and where police are active as much as actual safety, and busier, denser, higher-foot-traffic blocks log more. Locations are approximate — the NYPD shifts each report to the nearest corner for privacy — so read this as rough context, not a safety score.

Neighborhood crime

Bedbug history

Infested, latest filing

Annual filings

2024–20250 infested · 0 eradicated

Self-reported by the owner for the year ending each filing. Counts are building-wide and do not say which apartment was affected.

Bedbug history

DOB building violations

Active

On record

Active, last 3 yrs

Violations issued by the Department of Buildings that the owner must correct. Most don't carry a fine on their own; summonses that go to a hearing and can be fined are listed separately under OATH/ECB.

No active DOB violations.

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

Lost by default

These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.

BoilersClass 22019-10-22$625 penalty

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2026-09-16Apt 2Dresidential

2026-09-08Apt 2Aresidential

2024-12-06Apt 2Gresidential

Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.

Evictions

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

Cases on record

Open now

Tenant-brought

Harassment found

With a judgment

Most cases are tenants taking the owner to court to force repairs. A case is not proof of wrongdoing; a harassment finding or judgment is a court ruling against the owner.

CLOSEDOpened 2026-02-25

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2026-01-07

Harassment case

CLOSEDOpened 2018-05-02

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2018-02-26

Harassment case

These are cases HPD is a party to, mostly tenants suing to force repairs or stop harassment. Eviction cases landlords file against tenants are not in the city's open data, so they don't appear here; the Evictions section shows only evictions a marshal carried out.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

KEW GARDENS HILLS LLC

Head officer

DONALD HASTINGS

Managing agent

BRIAN GARLAND

69 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.

1 BOGARDUS PLACEMANHATTAN 1 WADSWORTH AVENUEMANHATTAN 1026 1 AVENUEMANHATTAN 1080 AMSTERDAM AVENUEMANHATTAN 121 SEAMAN AVENUEMANHATTAN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2014-09-08 · $216,000,000

Most recent mortgage2019-01-31 · $8,350,130.09

Mortgage2019-01-31$8,350,130.09

borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

Sale2014-09-08$216,000,000

KEW GARDENS BAP LLC → KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC

Mortgage2014-09-08$63,360,937.3

borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

Mortgage2014-09-08$15,000,000

borrower KEW GARDENS HILLS, LLC · lender MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

Sale2008-06-26$138,634,826

KEW GARDENS NY LLC → KEW GARDENS BAP LLC

From ACRIS recorded documents. Amounts are often $0 or nominal for transfers between related parties, and LLCs can obscure who is really involved — treat this as public-record context, not a valuation.

Ownership & money

City debt & tax-lien sale

Flagged for the 2025 tax-lien sale

The owner owes enough in water and sewer charges to be listed for the city's tax-lien sale (most recently a 60-day notice). A listing can still be cured by paying or entering a payment plan.

Years listed

2025

Most recent

60-day noticewater/sewer only2025-03-01

90-day noticewater/sewer only2025-02-01

From DOF lien-sale lists (2019–2025). Financial distress is not proof of neglect, but owners behind on what they owe the city more often let repairs slide. Debt may since have been paid.

City debt & tax-lien sale