85 recorded events, 1972–2026, from 8 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 59 311 service requests, 7 DOB complaints, 6 DOB permits.
Full record, year by year Support this site
No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
15 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Food Establishment (6) · Air Quality (4) · Broken Parking Meter (2) · Snow or Ice (1) · General Construction/Plumbing (1) · Illegal Parking (1).
$42,000 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (2 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.
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $864,000 | $388,800 |
| 2026 | $878,000 | $395,100 |
| 2027 | $985,000 | $443,250 |
The city's market estimate has risen 14% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shashlik House | Eastern European | A | Mice evidence |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
1 restaurant · 1 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
6 Food Establishment complaints to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Food Protection, Odor, Food Contaminated) · complaints filed by the public; DOHMH investigates, outcomes aren't published.
Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).
Hurricane evacuation zone 4 of 6 — zone 1 evacuates first.
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 | Avenue U — Q · 800 ft straight-line (about a 4-minute walk) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: Avenue U / E 13 St — B3 · 100 ft |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 153 Homecrest Middle: J.H.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham. 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.
1240 Avenue U
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
15 311 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.
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 2 | 35 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Every one of the 85 recorded events, 1972–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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