40-40 79th Street
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through June 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- 2 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (35 vs ~8)
- Built in 1956 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 193 units registered
About this building
The building’s floor space is 4.2 times the size of its lot: 176,480 sq ft of building on a 42,176 sq ft lot. 192 apartments — more than 98% of the 376 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 11373 have.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 4, 2026.
A difference between the DHCR rent-stabilized count and the PLUTO total is common and does not, on its own, indicate a violation: units can leave rent stabilization legally, the two datasets count units differently, some units may be non-residential, and a registration can be filed incompletely. To check your own apartment, see how to request your rent history from DHCR.
40-40 79th Street
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- City records show 3 open HPD violations, 2 immediately hazardous (Class C) at this building. Ask which are still unresolved in the unit and the landlord’s timeline to clear them.
- The oldest open violation on record dates to 2021 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 193 rent-stabilized units here. Ask whether this specific unit is one of them, and ask the landlord for its legal regulated rent and lease history.
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Correct failure to notify occupants and/or to investigate lead-based paint hazards.
- Confirm in person that the immediately-hazardous (Class C) conditions — typically heat, hot water, leaks, mold or pests — are genuinely fixed, not just marked closed.
40-40 79th Street sits in Queens, ZIP 11373. The closest subway is 82 St-Jackson Hts (7) (4-minute walk), served by the 7 line.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: October 2021 · Most recent: January 2024. HPD marks a violation open until it is certified as corrected, so an old date can mean an unresolved condition or a repair that was never certified.
- 2024-01-05
- 2021-12-28 "§ 27-2056.4 ADM CODE- CORRECT FAILURE TO NOTIFY OCCUPANTS AND/OR TO INVESTIGATE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS."
- 2021-10-05
- Class C · 2 open · penalty 30 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- 2026-07-20 · Apt BLDG · NON EMERGENCY · ELEVATOR
- 2026-07-20 · Apt BLDG · NON EMERGENCY · ELEVATOR
- 2026-07-20 · Apt BLDG · NON EMERGENCY · ELEVATOR
- 2026-05-26
- 2024-04-30
- 2022-11-21 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 IN 2021"
- 2018-01-26 "VIO ISSUED TO ELEVATOR - FAIL TO CORRECT DEFECTS ON 2016 CAT 1 INSP/TST"
- 2018-01-26 "VIO ISSUED TO ELEVATOR - FAIL TO CORRECT DEFECTS ON 2016 CAT 1 INSP/TST"
No HPD lead-paint violations are on record for this building. That means no complaint or inspection was filed — not that the building is lead-free.
Built 1956. Under NYC Local Law 1 (Admin Code §27-2056.5), lead paint is presumed present in common areas and in apartments where a child under 6 resides, in multiple dwellings built before 1960. The presumption stands unless the owner obtained a lead-free or lead-safe exemption from HPD. Those exemption records aren’t published as open data, so we can’t confirm one either way.
Also on record: 38 procedural §27-2056 violations (failure to file required lead paperwork, most recent 2022) — a records failure, not evidence of a lead hazard.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- PETIT LARCENY: 386
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 162
- PROSTITUTION & RELATED OFFENSES: 119
- HARRASSMENT 2: 106
- FELONY ASSAULT: 102
- Noise - Residential: 296
- Noise - Commercial: 173
- Blocked Driveway: 152
- Illegal Parking: 140
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 103
- 7710 77 STREET
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- 8109 41 AVENUE
- P.S. 069 Jackson Heights
- Renaissance Charter School
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- Renaissance Charter School
- I.S. 230
- I.S. 145 Joseph Pulitzer
- Renaissance Charter School
- 82 St-Jackson Hts
- Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway
- Elmhurst Av
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
- P.s. 069 Jackson Heights
- Percussia
- Zoni Lang Ctr
- Diversity Plaza
- Jackson Heights Sda School
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Astound Broadband Cable Up to 1,500 Mbps down · 50 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 980 Mbps down · 880 Mbps up
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Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection (NY, rev. May 2026). Wired broadband only — cable + fiber. DSL, satellite, and fixed-wireless not included. Block-level data; actual availability may vary by building.
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