HPD issues violations across 200,000+ NYC properties a year. How to check any building by address, what open violations mean, and how to use them.
NYC's Smallest Apartment Buildings Have Four Times More Dangerous Violations Per Apartment Than Its Largest
We measured open HPD violations per apartment across NYC buildings. Buildings with six units or fewer carry four times the immediately-hazardous violations per apartment that buildings of 38+ units do — and they are the least likely to draw attention.
HPD vs. DOB Violations: The Two Kinds of NYC Building Records, Explained
HPD violations cover inside conditions — heat, pests, mold; DOB covers structure and construction. A building clean on one can be troubled on the other.
Which NYC Borough Has the Most Housing Violations? The Data Says Two Things
Brooklyn has the most open housing violations in raw numbers; the Bronx has the worst rate. Both are true — and the difference shows how to read the data.
Staten Island Has NYC's Lowest Housing-Violation Rate. Here's Why
By violations per 1,000 units, Staten Island has NYC’s lowest rate — about 274 vs the Bronx’s 838 and 536 citywide. What the data shows, and why.
What Public Records Show About Queens Residential Buildings
Six large Queens buildings, reviewed on public records — HPD violations, 311 complaints, and rent-stabilization data. What the city’s data shows.
What Public Records Show About Eight Large Bronx Residential Buildings
Eight large Bronx complexes, scored on public records — HPD violations, 311 complaints, DOB filings, and rent-stabilization history. What the data shows.
How 96 NYC Residential Buildings Score on Public Records
Weverit generated building reports for 96 large residential complexes across New York City — public housing, co-ops, and market-rate rentals — drawn from HPD, 311, DOB, and rent-stabilization records. Here is what the grade distribution across those buildings shows.
What happens after NYC discharges one of its most distressed apartment buildings from AEP? We tracked 2,957 of them.
We tracked 2,957 buildings discharged from NYC's Alternative Enforcement Program. New serious violations drop fourfold — and 40% of all returns to the program happen within two years.
594 Class C violations filed Wednesday — what 'immediately hazardous' means for your lease
On May 20, 2026, HPD issued 594 Class C violations citywide — the immediately hazardous tier that carries a 24-hour correction deadline. Here's what the classification means, which buildings logged the most violations that day, and what tenants can do when landlords miss the deadline.
9 complaints. One Queens ZIP. One Saturday.
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, Queens ZIP code 11109 filed 9 service requests through 311 — five times its 30-day daily baseline of 1.8. It was the highest spike ratio of any ZIP in the city that day, and it points to something renters can actually use.
7,500 False Certifications
NYC's Department of Housing Preservation and Development has named 100 buildings whose owners filed an estimated 7,500 false certifications claiming over 20,000 hazardous violations had been corrected in 2025. The buildings are public. The data is checkable. The pattern this represents is structural.
A 311 call is data. It is not necessarily evidence.
New Yorkers make 3.4 million 311 calls a year, feeding research, journalists, and renters. What a complaint proves — and what it doesn’t.
5 Brooklyn buildings. 166 violations. One Monday.
On May 4, 2026, Brooklyn logged 9,717 of the city's 10,759 HPD violations — more than 90% of the citywide total. Five Brooklyn buildings alone produced 166 violations between them. Here's what that means for tenants in those addresses.