168-36 88 Avenue

Queens, NY

BBL 4-09820-0038BIN 4210117Plain-text version

Concern level3 of 4

High

018 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 10 apartments
021 open rent-impairing violation(s)
039 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 79 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 79 apartments.

2018 — 79 units registered2023 — 79

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

1958

Built

Floors

Residential units

Elevator apartments

Type

The building

This building and the landlord's others

This building11 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.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 6DIssued 2013-02-085+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005 HMC:TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF MOLD ... CEILING & WALLS IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT WEST LOCATED AT APT 6D, 6th STORY

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSIssued 2012-05-025+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2033 ADM CODE PROVIDE READY ACCESS TO BUILDINGS HEATING SYSTEM DOOR LOCKED TO BOILER ROOM AT SOUTH, BASEMENT. AT BASEMENT

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt L2Issued 2012-05-025+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF CONCEALED WATER LEAK CEILING ( LOBBY APARTMENT L2 ) CEILING IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT L2, 1st STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Certified late

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2IIssued 2010-04-195+ YRS OLDRENT-IMPAIRING

§ 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ILLEGAL FASTENING DOUBLE CYLINDER KEY OPERATED LOCK AT DOOR IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 2I, 2nd STORY, APARTMENT AT SOUTH

Status: HPD couldn't get in to re-inspect

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water7

Unsanitary Condition4

Electric2

Paint/Plaster2

Elevator1

Appliance1

Plumbing1

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

242

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential183

Street/Sidewalk37

Unspecified13

Commercial6

Vehicle3

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

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

654

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony145

Misdemeanor439

Violation70

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

2023–20240 infested · 0 eradicated

2022–20231 infested · 1 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.

Quality of LifeHazardous2001-02-27$12,050 penalty

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2026-02-02Apt 6Gresidential

2026-02-02Apt 5Aresidential

2026-02-02Apt 6Gresidential

2025-10-29Apt 3Eresidential

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 2011-10-17

False Certification Non-Lead

CLOSEDOpened 2010-08-10

Tenant action

CLOSEDOpened 2010-07-27

Tenant action

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

HILLSIDE 88 LLC

Head officer

LYNNETTe IGLESIAS

Managing agent

NYC AMERICAN MANAGEMENT INC

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

103-10 37 AVENUEQUEENS 13-19 EGGERT PLACEQUEENS 14-20 GATEWAY BOULEVARDQUEENS 168-42 88 AVENUEQUEENS 22-30 MOTT AVENUEQUEENS

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2010-01-05 · $7,700,000

Most recent mortgage2021-06-24 · $2,291,336

Mortgage2021-06-24$2,291,336

borrower HILLSIDE 88 LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2015-01-08$1,375,793.67

borrower HILLSIDE 88 LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2012-10-11$1,337,053.23

borrower HILLSIDE 88 LLC · lender JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA

Sale2010-01-05$7,700,000

HILLSIDE 88TH REALTY, LLC → HILLSIDE 88 LLC

Mortgage2010-01-05$123,161.89

borrower HILLSIDE 88 LLC · lender INTERVEST NATIONAL BANK

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

Not on the city's tax-lien sale list (2019–2025). The owner has not fallen far enough behind on property tax or water charges to be flagged for a lien sale.

City debt & tax-lien sale