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Look up a building before you rent

The Atlas gathers the city’s records on a building: open violations, tenant complaints and owner-filed bed bug reports. Enter an address to see them.

What you’ll see

About the data

Open violations: Open HPD violations in the building, counted by class. C is immediately hazardous, B hazardous, A non-hazardous. Source: Housing Maintenance Code Violations.
Complaints: What tenants reported about the building in 12 months: heat and hot water, pests, mold, leaks, and how many complaints the block had. Source: HPD Housing Maintenance Code Complaints.
Bed bugs: Bed bug reports filed by owners with HPD, by building. Source: HPD Bedbug Reporting.
Buildings Department: Open DOB violations on the lot, and how many are hazardous.
Water tanks: Water tanks on the roof, where the building has them.
Lead pipes: Lots on the block in DEP’s service-line inventory, by whether the pipe is recorded as lead, not lead or unknown.
Rent around here: HUD fair market rent for the ZIP code, the census tract’s median rent, and open affordable-housing lotteries from NYC Housing Connect.

Complaints are what tenants reported to 311 and HPD. They are not confirmed violations.
Unknown is not lead. The inventory is DEP’s pipe record, not a water test.
Evictions are those carried out by City Marshals, counted by area and never by building. Lotteries are advertised on Housing Connect; apply only there.

Figures describe recorded activity, not a rating of the neighborhood. Dates and coverage differ by topic.