A modest record — below the level that usually signals systemic problems. More recorded distress than 82% of 1-5-unit residential buildings citywide. The citywide median for 1-5-unit residential buildings is 0 penalty
points per 10 units; this building carries 10. In ZIP 11209, 84% of residential buildings hold an A and
3% grade D or F.
How grades work
this building
A
C
Among 699,345 1-5-unit residential buildings citywide · left is less recorded distress, right is more
Open with the city right now
Open HPD violations
4 total — 0 class C (immediately hazardous), 2 class B, 2 class A. Oldest open since 1985-10-04.
status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records
Patterns
No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
What 311 hears from this address
13 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Illegal Parking (5) · Dirty Condition (2) · Litter Basket Request (1) · Abandoned Bike (1) · Graffiti (1) · Sidewalk Condition (1).
Filed construction activity
No permitted work with a declared cost filed in the last decade. Permit
costs cover filed construction work only — they do not capture routine maintenance or repairs done
without a permit.
Rent-stabilization signals
Yes
Built before 1974 (1920)
No
Six or more residential units (2)
No
421-a / J-51 tax benefit on the current tax roll
1 of 3 signals present. Only a partial profile — stabilization is possible but less likely. The definitive answer for any unit:
request its rent history from NYS Homes & Community Renewal (free, at hcr.ny.gov).
Registered with HPD — the names behind the building
Registered owner(s)
WAHKIU REALTY LLC
Head officer
WING K SHUM
Managing agent
WAHKIU REALTY LLC
Last registered
2025-10-06
as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration
What the city thinks it's worth
Tax year
City market value
Assessed value
2025
$855,000
$384,750
2026
$952,000
$428,400
2027
$1,142,000
$513,900
The city's market estimate has risen
34% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
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.
13 311 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.
Sales, deeds & mortgages
Most recent mortgage recorded against this lot: $725,000 on
2005-02-22 (lender: Independence Community 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
2005-02-22
Deed $1,200,000 — from CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI , DECEASED, CHUNG SOO to WAHKIU REALTY LLC
$1,200,000
2005-02-22
AL&R $725,000 — from INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK to WAHKIU REALTY LLC
$725,000
2005-02-22
Mortgage $725,000 — from WAHKIU REALTY LLC to INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK
$725,000
2000-01-04
Mortgage $275,000 — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, IN SOOK to DIME SAVINGS BANK OFWILLIAMSBURGH
$275,000
1993-08-27
Mortgage $400,000 — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, CHUNG SOO to SHORT, HELEN
$400,000
1988-12-20
Mortgage $236,419 — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SHORT, WALTER F JR
$236,419
1988-12-20
Mortgage $14,000 — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SCHIANO, MARGARET M
$14,000
1984-08-29
Mortgage $205,000 — from SCHIANO, LOUIS to SHORT, WALTER F JR
$205,000
Ten-year activity
50250
2017
2018
2019
2020
25
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
EnforcementHousing & tenantsOwnership & moneyHealth & systems
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Year
Enforcement
Housing & tenants
Ownership & money
Health & systems
Total
2017
1
2
0
0
3
2018
0
7
0
1
8
2019
0
5
0
1
6
2020
0
5
2
1
8
2021
4
19
0
2
25
2022
1
17
0
1
19
2023
0
22
0
2
24
2024
1
6
0
1
8
2025
1
4
0
2
7
2026
0
5
0
1
6
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2025-01-08Restaurant inspection: GREEN POKE & SUSHI TOWN — grade A
2024
2024-12-31Bedbug filing: 0 infested units
2024-11-26HPD class I: §27-2107 ADM CODE OWNER FAILED TO FILE A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY ADM CODE §27-2097 AND IS THEREFORE
2022-05-27311: Broken Parking Meter — Coin or Card Did Not Register
2022-04-30311: Noise — Noise: Alarms (NR3)
2022-04-16311: Abandoned Vehicle — With License Plate
2022-04-15311: Adopt-A-Basket — Adopt-A-Basket
2022-04-06311: Illegal Dumping — Removal Request
2022-02-18HPD class A: (A) § HMC:FILE ANNUAL BEDBUG REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HPD RULE AS DESCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THIS NOTICE OF VIOLATION OR AS DESCRIBED ON HPD
2021
2021-12-14311: Illegal Dumping — Removal Request
2021-11-06311: Sewer — Street Flooding (SJ)
2021-11-05Boiler inspection
2021-10-09311: Graffiti — Police Report Not Requested
2021-05-18311: Request Large Bulky Item Collection — Request Large Bulky Item Collection
2021-05-06ECB CLASS - 2 violation: FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BLDG IN CODECOMPLIANT MANNER FAILURE TO COMPLY W/COMMISSIONER'S ORDER CONTAINED IN SUMMONS/V39036822R ISSUED2/$625
2021-03-19311: Graffiti — Police Report Not Requested
2021-02-26ECB CLASS - 1 violation: FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE-COMPLIANT MANNER. AT TIME OF INSPECTION OBSERVED AT EXPOSURE #2, METAL CORNICE HAS CORRODED &$1,250
2008-07-18ECB CLASS - 3 violation: 15 16 24B 32A 34B 38 39 40 50A, 50A- CLEAN UNSANITARY CONDITION IN BSMT
2007
2007-12-20Tenant complaint: APPLIANCE — ELECTRIC/GAS RANGE
2005
2005-04-22Mortgage satisfied — from CHOI, SANG WHA; CHOI, IN SOOK to THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF WILLIAMSBURGH
2005-04-22TL&R — from CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, SANG HWA to THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF WILLIAMBURGH
2005-03-28Mortgage satisfied — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, CHUNG SOO; CHOI, IN SOOK to SHORT, HELEN
2005-02-22Deed $1,200,000 — from CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI , DECEASED, CHUNG SOO to WAHKIU REALTY LLC$1,200,000
2005-02-22AL&R $725,000 — from INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK to WAHKIU REALTY LLC$725,000
2005-02-22Mortgage $725,000 — from WAHKIU REALTY LLC to INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK$725,000
2003
2003-03-19DOB violation LL6291:
2002
2002-03-26DOB violation LL6291:
2001
2001-02-27DOB violation LL6291:
2000
2000-02-29RTXL — from CHOI, CHUNG SOO/ESTOF
2000-01-04Mortgage $275,000 — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, IN SOOK to DIME SAVINGS BANK OFWILLIAMSBURGH$275,000
2000-01-04Mortgage assigned — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, IN SOOK to DIME SAVINGS BANK OFWILLIAMSBURGH
1999
1999-03-16DOB violation LL6291:
1998
1998-05-04DOB violation LL6291:
1997
1997-09-16DOB violation LL6291:
1996
1996-04-02CERT — from SHORT, HELEN
1994
1994-06-01DOB violation LL6291:
1993
1993-10-15Permit EW — ISSUED
1993-10-15Permit EW — ISSUED
1993-10-15Permit EQ — ISSUED
1993-09-01ECB Non-Hazardous violation: FAILURE TO PROVIDE CONTRACTORS SIGN ALTERATION OF STORE 1ST FLOOR. REMEDY- PROVIDE SIGN
1993-09-01ECB Non-Hazardous violation: WORK W/O PERMIT. THERE IS NO CURRENT PERMIT FOR STORE FRONT OR SUSOENDED CEILING. BOTH HAVE BEEN INSTALLED. ALSO NEW PARTITIONS AT$175
1993-09-01ECB Non-Hazardous violation: WORK W/O PERMIT- ELECTRIC- IN STORE 1ST FLOOR FOR NEW LIGHTING, NEW WALK-IN BOX, NEW OUTLETS. (CONNECTED IN CELLAR) NEW CIRCUIT BO$175
1993-09-01ECB Non-Hazardous violation: WORK W/O A PERMIT- PLUMBING WORK FOR NEW SINK IN STORE (1ST FLOOR) NEWWATER LINES, WASTE LINES PERMIT IS ALSO NEEDED FOR WALK-IN B$350
1993-08-27Deed — from SHORT, HELEN to CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, CHUNG SOO; CHOI, SANG HWA
1993-08-27Mortgage $400,000 — from CHOI, SANG HWA; CHOI, IN SOOK; CHOI, CHUNG SOO to SHORT, HELEN$400,000
1993-08-27Mortgage satisfied — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SCHIANO, MARGARET M
1993-08-27Mortgage satisfied — from SCHIANO, LOUIS to SHORT, WALTER F JR
1993-08-16DOB violation LL6291:
1993-06-01DOB violation LL6291:
1993-05-26Mortgage assigned — from SCHIANO, MARGARET M to SHORT, WALTER F JR
1993-05-17Deed — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SHORT, HELEN
1990
1990-06-05HPD class A: SECTION 27-2005 ADM CODE & 309 M/D LAW ABATE THE NUISANCE CONSISTING OF FRONT ENTRANCE DOOOR TO BUILDING LOCKED PREVENTING ACCESS TO BELLS.
1988
1988-12-20Mortgage $236,419 — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SHORT, WALTER F JR$236,419
1988-12-20Deed — from SCHIANO, MARGARET M/EXEC; SCHIANO, LOUIS J/ESTOF to VERDE, ROBERT J
1988-12-20CERT — from SCHIANO, MARGARET M
1988-12-20Agreement — from SHORT, WALTER F JR to VERDE, ROBERT J
1988-12-20Mortgage $14,000 — from VERDE, ROBERT J to SCHIANO, MARGARET M$14,000
1988-09-14ECB Non-Hazardous violation: EMERGENCY LIGHING IS INOPERTIVE AT NORTH EAST EXIT REMEDY REPAIR DEFECTRIVE EMERGENCY LIGHTING. OPERATION OF A PA W/O A CURRENT PE$90
1985
1985-10-11HPD class A: D26-10.01 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE BELL VESTIBULE TO 2 STY FRONT APT.
1985-10-11HPD class B: D26-19.05 ADM CODE PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIGHT OF NOT LESS THAN 60 WATTS INCANDESCENT OR EQUIVALENT ILLUMINATION CEILING 1 STY VESTIBULE.
1985-10-04HPD class B: D26-19.07 ADM CODE PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIGHTING AT OR NEAR THE OUTSIDE OF THE FRONT ENTRANCEWAY OF THE BUILDING AND KEEP SAME BURNING FROM SUNS
1984
1984-08-29Mortgage $205,000 — from SCHIANO, LOUIS to SHORT, WALTER F JR$205,000
1984-08-29Deed — from HEANEY, MARY ANN; SHORT, WALTER F JR to SCHIANO, LOUIS
1977
1977-03-08Deed — from SHORT ALICE DECD EXECUTOR OF to HEANEY MARY A; SHORT WALTER F JR