BUILDING REPORT
312 East 42 Street
Manhattan 10017
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Managing Agent
HPD Violations
Class breakdown: 33 Class A (non-hazardous),
51 Class B (hazardous),
8 Class C (immediately hazardous).
Resident complaints to HPD: 3 in the last 12 months,
6 in three years,
96 lifetime. Counts are lifetime totals on the building record, not only open items.
Source: NYC Open Data — HPD Violations. Verify with BBL 1013340041.
How the record was disposed: 35 of 92 (38%) were dismissed — the city determined the violation should not stand — rather than corrected by the owner.
ECB / OATH Penalties
DOB Complaints & Permits
Local Law 11 — Facade Inspection
Facade inspections are required every 5 years. Buildings found UNSAFE must make repairs — often funded by special assessments. Learn about special assessments →
Litigation History
6 HPD-initiated housing-court cases on record. 0 federal cases.
NYSCEF matching is by party and address and is not exhaustive — a case filed under an LLC or a managing agent's name may not appear here. Search the docket directly by party name at iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef.
311 Complaints
That is 0.6 requests per unit across 459 units. Source: NYC Open Data — 311 Service Requests.
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Context: ZIP 10017
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Figures on this page were last refreshed from the source datasets on 2026-09-10. Local Law 11 status is carried from that same refresh and is not re-verified per building.
Every data point on this page comes from free, publicly available NYC records. No paid databases. No private sources. You can verify every claim:
- HPD Violations: data.cityofnewyork.us (Housing Preservation & Development)
- DOB Records: a810-bisweb.nyc.gov (Department of Buildings)
- 311 Complaints: data.cityofnewyork.us (311 Service Requests)
- Litigation: iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef (NYSCEF)
- Property Info: a836-acris.nyc.gov (ACRIS)