42-48 81st Street
Top insights
- No open HPD violations — cleaner than 78% of buildings in this ZIP
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~9)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1928) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 6 of 6 units
About this building
City records list 1928 as the year built — older than 84% of the 373 buildings we cover in ZIP 11373.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 13, 2026.
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
42-48 81st Street
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- City records show no open HPD violations here — ask what was most recently repaired and how maintenance requests are handled, since a clean record isn’t a guarantee of upkeep.
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 6 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.
42-48 81st Street sits in Queens, ZIP 11373. The closest subway is Elmhurst Av (M,R) (2-minute walk), served by the M and R lines.
Building Condition
- 2023-06-20 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2019 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
- 2015-10-01 "VIOLATION ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL BOILER 2014 INSPECTION REPORT"
- 2015-03-03 "VIOLATION ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL BOILER 2013 INSPECTION REPORT"
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 1928. 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.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 58
- HARRASSMENT 2: 57
- PETIT LARCENY: 48
- GRAND LARCENY: 47
- FELONY ASSAULT: 45
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 123
- Noise - Residential: 88
- Blocked Driveway: 46
- Illegal Parking: 38
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 33
- 8122 BROADWAY
- 8137 BROADWAY
- 8019 BROADWAY
- P.S. 007 Louis F. Simeone
- P.S. 089 Elmhurst
- The 51 Avenue Academy (The Path To Academic Excell
- I.S. 5 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate School
- Renaissance Charter School
- Renaissance Charter School
- International High School for Health Sciences
- Newtown High School
- Elmhurst Av
- 82 St-Jackson Hts
- Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- P.s. 89q: The Jose Peralta School Of Dreamers
- Elmhurst City Hospital Center
- Frank D. O'connor Playground
- Outdoor Parking
- Ny Tibetan Service Center, Inc.
- Nine Heroes Plaza
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
- Astound Broadband Cable Fiber Up to 1,500 Mbps down · 1,500 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable Fiber Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 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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