Look up your building's HPD violations

Every housing code violation ever issued in NYC is public record. Enter your address to see what's on file for your building — what's open, what's been resolved, and how serious each one was.

What you're looking at

HPD — the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development — inspects apartments and issues violations when landlords break the housing code. Each violation has a class that tells you how serious it is:

• Class A — non-hazardous. Cosmetic or minor issues like chipped paint outside an apartment.
• Class B — hazardous. Pests, mold, broken locks, plumbing problems that aren't an immediate threat.
• Class C — immediately hazardous. No heat, no hot water, lead paint risk to children, missing smoke detectors, broken windows in winter.

Each violation also has a status: open means the landlord hasn't fixed it yet, closed means it's been resolved, and dismissed means HPD threw it out.

What to do with what you find

A pattern of open or repeated violations is powerful context. Landlords often behave differently when they know you're paying attention to public records, and city agencies and free tenant lawyers will take your situation more seriously when you can point to specific entries on the record.

If you're dealing with a specific problem, the step-by-step guides walk you through what to do next:

• No heat or hot water
• Mold
• Pests
• Leaks and plumbing
• Lead paint
• Broken appliances
• Repairs that aren't fixing the problem
• Browse all scenarios