Whether it is falling apart
Open violations from HPD, weighted by how serious they are and how recent. Lead paint and no heat count for far more than a scuffed wall.
HPD Housing Maintenance Code violations
New York City · Public housing records
The landlord knows.
Now you do too.
Every New York apartment has a paper trail — violations, complaints, how quickly the owner actually fixes things. It is all public, and almost nobody reads it before signing a lease. Type an address and we will.
Free, no account. Try a building with a heavy record to see what a report looks like.
What a report tells you
Whether anyone fixes it
The share of violations the owner corrected before the city’s deadline. Two buildings with the same violation count can be completely different places to live.
Correction deadlines, Classes A / B / C
How you would actually get around
Which trains are near, how far each station really is, and the parks within walking distance — measured from the door, not the neighbourhood.
MTA station entrances · NYC Parks
We report the record.
We don’t rate landlords.
Everything here comes from the city’s own files, with the date attached and a link to the source. Where the records are thin, the report says so instead of guessing.
How the score is built →A building we have no records for is never scored well.
It reads “not found in HPD records”, because that is a different thing from a clean record.
A repair rate from three violations is not shown at all.
Too small a sample to say anything about a named business, so we suppress it.
Violations the city withdrew do not count against a building.
HPD dismisses about 29% of what it issues. A dismissal is not a repair, and it is not a black mark.
Every number links to the record it came from.
If you would not take our word for it, you should not have to.
Looking at a place this week?
It takes about fifteen seconds, and it is the cheapest due diligence available on a lease you will sign for a year.