1,855 recorded events, 1973–2026, from 19 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 719 311 service requests, 625 HPD complaints, 263 HPD housing violations.
Full record, year by year Support this site
A sustained record of distress well beyond its peers. More recorded distress than 96% of 6-24-unit residential buildings citywide. The citywide median for 6-24-unit residential buildings is 16.3 penalty points per 10 units; this building carries 402.7. In ZIP 10012, 65% of residential buildings hold an A and 5% grade D or F. How grades work
Among 46,798 6-24-unit residential buildings citywide · left is less recorded distress, right is more
| Open HPD violations | 7 total — 5 class C (immediately hazardous), 2 class B, 0 class A. Oldest open since 2025-04-09. |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
223 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2023–24: 6 · winter 2024–25: 154 · winter 2025–26: 59). Repeated winter clusters suggest a chronic heating problem.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
$16,905 in enforcement penalties imposed (ECB/OATH) in the last three years.
199 service requests in the last three years. Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (108) · General Construction/Plumbing (19) · Illegal Parking (13) · Noise (12) · Obstruction (11) · PLUMBING (6).
$46,100 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (9 filings with a declared cost) — a rough measure of how actively the owner maintains the building. Permit costs cover filed construction work only — they do not capture routine maintenance or repairs done without a permit.
| Yes | Built before 1974 (1910) |
| Yes | Six or more residential units (8) |
| No | 421-a / J-51 tax benefit on the current tax roll |
2 of 3 signals present. This is the classic profile of a rent-stabilized building (pre-1974, 6+ units) — many units in such buildings remain stabilized. The definitive answer for any unit: request its rent history from NYS Homes & Community Renewal (free, at hcr.ny.gov).
| Registered owner(s) | HOP YICK REALTY II LLC |
| Head officer | WEITZNER SHIH |
| Managing agent | WEITZNER SHIH |
| Last registered | 2025-08-14 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3,743,000 | $1,684,350 |
| 2026 | $3,065,000 | $1,379,250 |
| 2027 | $3,007,000 | $1,353,150 |
The city's market estimate has fallen 20% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Heating fuel | NO2FUEL |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emporio | Italian | A | — |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
1 restaurant · 0 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).
Not in a hurricane evacuation zone.
Not in the city's stormwater (cloudburst) flood maps under any modeled scenario.
No street-flooding or sewer-backup complaints on record at this address.
Sources: FEMA flood maps (coastal), NYC DEP Stormwater Flood Maps (cloudburst), NYC hurricane evacuation zones, and 311 records for this address.
| Subway | Spring St — 6 · 450 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: none Bleecker St — 6 B D F M · 850 ft straight-line (about a 4-minute walk) · station accessibility: full |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: Cleveland Pl / Spring St — M1 · 450 ft |
| Citi Bike | Mott St & Prince St · 250 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto Middle: M.S. 131. Confirm with the DOE's school search. |
Distances are straight-line, not walking routes. Transit locations from the MTA and Citi Bike, bike facilities from NYC DOT, school zones from the DOE's 2024–25 maps.
231 Mott Street
| Heat or hot water | Heat or hot water |
| Apartment maintenance | Apartment maintenance |
| Bed bugs | Bed bugs |
| Residential pests | Residential pests |
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
199 311 service requests from this address in the last three years — 108 of them about heat or hot water.
311 will ask for the address, the apartment if the problem is inside, and what's wrong. Contact details are optional for most complaints; food-poisoning reports can be anonymous. Complaints appear in the city's public 311 data, usually within a day or two, and then in the Live from 311 box on this page.
Most recent mortgage recorded against this lot: $4,949,199 on 2013-05-30 (lender: Astoria Federal Savings And Loan Association), covering 2 lots — the amount covers all of them. Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-30 | Agreement $5,500,000 — from HOP YICK REALTY II, LLC to ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIA | $5,500,000 | |
| 2013-05-30 | Mortgage $4,949,199 — from HOP YICK REALTY II, LLC to ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIA | $4,949,199 | |
| 2002-12-17 | Mortgage $900,000 — from HOP YICK COMPANY, INC. to ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATI | $900,000 | |
| 1994-08-16 | Mortgage $300,000 — from HOP YICK CO., INC. to HANG SENG BANK LIMITED | $300,000 | |
| 1990-07-02 | Mortgage $178,575 — from HOP YICK CO INC to CITY OF NEW YORK | $178,575 | |
| 1989-06-01 | Mortgage $37,000 — from HOP YICK CO, INC to ALBIN, LEE M | $37,000 | |
| 1986-04-23 | Mortgage $440,000 — from MOTT TOWN II L.P. to LOH, JAMES | $440,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12 | 0 | 101 | 0 | 1 | 114 |
| 2018 | 6 | 8 | 150 | 0 | 2 | 166 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 101 | 1 | 4 | 107 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 259 | 0 | 1 | 261 |
| 2021 | 1 | 9 | 173 | 0 | 2 | 185 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 43 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 28 |
| 2024 | 0 | 10 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 69 |
| 2025 | 0 | 21 | 274 | 0 | 3 | 298 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 56 |
Every one of the 1,855 recorded events, 1973–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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