224 recorded events, 1972–2026, from 14 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 54 311 service requests, 35 ACRIS deeds & mortgages, 30 HPD housing violations.
Full record, year by year Support this site
The city's published records show little recorded distress here in the last three years. More recorded distress than 53% 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 18.5. In ZIP 10036, 62% of residential buildings hold an A and 6% 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 | 26 total — 8 class C (immediately hazardous), 11 class B, 7 class A. Oldest open since 1972-05-02. |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
4 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2023–24: 2 · winter 2025–26: 2). Repeated winter clusters suggest a chronic heating problem.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
13 service requests in the last three years. Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (2) · Sidewalk Condition (2) · UNSANITARY CONDITION (2) · Dirty Condition (1) · New Tree Request (1) · Illegal Parking (1).
$122,000 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (4 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) | PRASIT REALTY CORP |
| Head officer | PRASIT TANGCHAKKRACHAI |
| Managing agent | PRASIT REALTY CORP |
| Last registered | 2017-08-24 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3,006,000 | $1,352,700 |
| 2026 | $2,607,000 | $1,173,150 |
| 2027 | $3,128,000 | $1,407,600 |
The city's market estimate has risen 4% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Heating fuel | NATURALGAS |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sai Tong | Thai | 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 | 50 St — C E · 400 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: partial (Downtown only) 49 St — N R W · 650 ft straight-line (about a 3-minute walk) · station accessibility: partial (Uptown only) |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: 8 Av / W 46 St — M20 M104 · 400 ft |
| Citi Bike | 8 Ave & W 49 St · 400 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| Bike facility | Shared bike route mapped within 75 ft |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 051 Elias Howe Middle: M.S. 297. 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.
244 West 48 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 |
13 311 service requests from this address in the last three years — 2 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: $128,200,000 on 2005-03-25 (lender: Fannie Mae), covering 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-03-25 | Mortgage $128,200,000 — from BILTMORE TOWER, LLC to NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY | $128,200,000 | |
| 2005-03-25 | Mortgage $128,200,000 — from BILTMORE TOWER, LLC to FANNIE MAE | $128,200,000 | |
| 2002-06-10 | Mortgage $145,000,000 — from BILTMORE TOWER, LLC; BILTMORE THEATER, LLC to NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY | $145,000,000 | |
| 1988-09-06 | Mortgage $400,000 — from PRASIT REALTY CORP to BANGKOK METROPOLITANBK | $400,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 2019 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
Every one of the 224 recorded events, 1972–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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