212-49a Hillside Avenue

Queens, NY

BBL 4-10681-0033BIN 4451880Plain-text version

Concern level4 of 4

Severe

018 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 2 apartments
023 open rent-impairing violation(s)

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 18 stabilized units with New York State for 2023 — essentially all of the building's 18 apartments.

2018 — 18 units registered2023 — 18

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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The building

1949

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building1 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 7 buildings; these counts are for this building only.

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 2008-06-192 violations5+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2010, 2011, 2012 ADM CODE REMOVE THE ACCUMULATION OF REFUSE AND/OR RUBBISH AND MAINTAIN IN A CLEAN CONDITION THE CELLAR THRUOUT.
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BLOCK WALL AT WATER CLOSET COMPARTMENT CELLAR.

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

CLASS B · HAZARDOUSIssued 1991-05-215+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSING DOORS THAT IS MISSING OR DEFECTIVE BOILER ROOM DOOR CELLAR.

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

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

163

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water119

Plumbing12

General10

Water Leak7

Electric6

Door/Window5

Unsanitary Condition2

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

Much lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential29

Street/Sidewalk3

Vehicle3

Unspecified1

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 lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony18

Misdemeanor31

Violation8

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

No bedbugs reported

The owner filed 19 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.

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

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

No marshal-executed evictions on record for this building. Eviction cases filed in court but not carried out aren't included.

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 2024-03-14

Harassment case

CLOSEDOpened 2024-01-29

Harassment case

CLOSEDOpened 2023-03-14

Harassment case

CLOSEDOpened 2021-05-12

Heat / hot water

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 GARDEN ESTATE LLC

Head officer

MOHAMED YASSIN

Managing agent

HILLSIDE GARDEN ESTATE, LLC

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

213-21A HILLSIDE AVENUEQUEENS

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2020-06-09 · $7,000,000

Most recent mortgage2020-06-09 · $1,115,481.6

Sale2020-06-09$7,000,000

HILLPARK GARDENS LLC → HILLSIDE GARDEN ESTATE LLC

Mortgage2020-06-09$1,115,481.6

borrower HILLSIDE GARDEN ESTATE, LLC · lender NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK

Mortgage2018-02-09$1,085,913.68

borrower HILLPARK GARDENS LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2010-12-30$2,942,962.38

borrower HILLPARK GARDENS LLC · lender AMALGAMATED BANK

Mortgage2000-02-29$227,301.93

borrower HILLPARK GARDENS LLC · lender LEGG MASON REAL ESTATE SERVICES INC

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