132-35 88 Street

Queens, NY

BBL 4-11351-0121BIN 4245206Plain-text version

Concern level2 of 4

Moderate

011 active DOB violation(s)
026 open HPD 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

Not on the rent-stabilized list

Not found in the DOF tax-bill records nor the 2024 DHCR registered building list. Absence isn't proof a unit is unregulated — buildings can be missing or newly deregulated.

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

1977

Built

Floors

Residential units

Walk-up apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building8 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 B · HAZARDOUSApt 3BIssued 2025-05-165 violations

§ 27-2005 HMC: REFIT ENTRANCE DOOR IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST AT NORTH LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST
§ 27-2046.1 HMC: REPAIR OR REPLACE THE CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE(S). MISSING IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

3 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2045 ADM CODE REPAIR OR REPLACE THE SMOKE DETECTOR MISSING IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR EAST WALL AND WINDOW FRAME IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST AT NORTH LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST
§ 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK EAST WALL AND WINDOW FRAME IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST AT NORTH LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Certified late

CLASS A · NON-HAZARDOUSApt 3BIssued 2025-05-19

§ 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLYWOOD SUBFLOOR IN THE FOYER LOCATED AT APT 3B, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NORTH AT EAST

Status: Notice issued, not yet certified

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water3

Paint/Plaster3

Flooring/Stairs2

Door/Window1

Flooring/StairsFloor2025-05-01 · closed

Paint/PlasterCeiling2025-05-01 · closed

Paint/PlasterWindow/Frame2025-05-01 · closed

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

Much lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential70

Unspecified5

Street/Sidewalk3

Vehicle1

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

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony27

Misdemeanor28

Violation17

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

2022–20233 infested · 3 eradicated

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

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.

ACTIVE · LBLVIO-LOW PRESSURE BOILER BOILER REQUIRED2023-06-30

VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2021 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

No OATH/ECB violations on record for this building.

Evictions

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

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.

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

BALSAM VILLAGE 1 LLC

Head officer

LAWRENCE BERNSTEIN

Managing agent

BALSAM VILLAGE MANAGEMENT LLC

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

132-41 88 STREETQUEENS 132-49 88 STREETQUEENS 133-21 87 STREETQUEENS 87-12 PITKIN AVENUEQUEENS 87-15 DUMONT AVENUEQUEENS

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2017-05-25 · $28,088,888.96

Most recent mortgage2019-08-23 · $499,000

Mortgage2019-08-23$499,000

borrower BALSAM VILLAGE 1 LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Mortgage2017-05-25$22,700,000

borrower BALSAM VILLAGE 1 LLC, BALSAM VILLAGE 2 LLC · lender JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Sale2017-05-25$28,088,888.96

OZONE ESTATES, BALSAM VILLAGE, INC., GREENVIEW ARMS, INC. → BALSAM VILLAGE 1 LLC

Mortgage1980-02-14no recorded price

borrower BALSAM VILLAGE INC · lender FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP

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.