309 recorded events, 1966–2026, from 18 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 61 HPD complaints, 46 DOB complaints, 42 ACRIS deeds & mortgages.
Full record, year by year Support this site
| Open HPD violations | 10 total — 0 class C (immediately hazardous), 8 class B, 2 class A. Oldest open since 1997-03-24. |
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
7 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Obstruction (2) · Residential Disposal Complaint (1) · Illegal Parking (1) · Outdoor Dining (1) · Rodent (1) · Snow or Ice (1).
$159,277 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.
| Registered owner(s) | PARADISE REALTY CORP. |
| Head officer | GIUSEPPE GALVANO |
| Managing agent | PARADISE REALTY CORP |
| Last registered | 2026-06-26 |
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $4,440,000 | $1,998,000 |
| 2026 | $4,508,000 | $2,028,600 |
| 2027 | $5,032,000 | $2,264,400 |
The city's market estimate has risen 13% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Heating fuel | NATURALGAS |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe G Restaurant (Da Vinci Hotel) | 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 | 59 St-Columbus Circle — 1 A B C D · 300 ft straight-line (about a 2-minute walk) · station accessibility: full 57 St-7 Av — N Q R W · 700 ft straight-line (about a 3-minute walk) · station accessibility: full |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: 8 Av / W 56 St — M20 M104 · 250 ft |
| Citi Bike | W 56 St & 8 Ave · 100 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs 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 56 Street
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
7 311 service requests from this address in the last three years.
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: $377,010 on 2017-03-24 (lender: Sterling National Bank). Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-24 | Mortgage $377,011 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to STERLING NATIONAL BANK | $377,011 | |
| 2017-03-24 | Agreement $1,200,000 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to STERLING NATIONAL BANK | $1,200,000 | |
| 2017-03-24 | AL&R $1,200,000 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to STERLING NATIONAL BANK | $1,200,000 | |
| 2005-10-28 | AL&R $1,000,000 — from FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, FSB to PARADISE REALTY CORP. | $1,000,000 | |
| 2005-10-28 | Agreement $1,000,000 — from FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, FSB to PARADISE REALTY CORP. | $1,000,000 | |
| 2005-10-28 | Mortgage $501,111 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, FSB | $501,111 | |
| 2003-12-30 | Mortgage $17,000,000 — from 56TH STREET RETAIL, L.L.C.; 56TH STREET ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. to BAYERISCHE HYPO-UND VEREINSBANK AG | $17,000,000 | |
| 2000-09-13 | Mortgage $46,700,000 — from BERTELSMANN 56TH STREET COMMERCIAL LLC; 56TH STREET ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. to BAYERISCHE HYPO-UNDVEREINSBANK AG | $46,700,000 | |
| 1999-08-30 | Mortgage $10,800,000 — from RELATED/AMSI, L.P.; 56TH STREET ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. to BAYERISCHE HYPO-UNDVEREINSBANK AG | $10,800,000 | |
| 1999-08-30 | Mortgage $40,500 — from RELATED/AMSI, L.P.; 56TH STREET ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. to BAYERISCHE HYPO-UNDVEREINSBANK AG | $40,500 | |
| 1999-05-10 | Mortgage $600,000 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, FSB. | $600,000 | |
| 1996-05-24 | Mortgage $210,000 — from PARADISE REALTY CORP. to DANIEL PERLA ASSOCIATES, L.P. | $210,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 22 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Every one of the 309 recorded events, 1966–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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