51-04 97th Street, Queens, NY 11368

The three-story, three-unit residential building at 51-04 97th Street in Corona, owned by Kinming Tso and constructed in 1960, has experienced several concerning maintenance issues in recent years. Most notably, in early 2025, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) received multiple emergency complaints regarding safety concerns with carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors, and unsanitary conditions involving mold – though HPD was unable to complete inspections in response to these complaints.

Prior to these issues, the building faced pest problems in February 2023, and between 2021-2024, there were repeated violations regarding the failure to file mandatory annual bedbug reports, though subsequent filings from 2022-2025 indicated no infestations occurred during those periods, with the most recent 2025 report showing zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested units. The building has a concerning history of access issues during inspections, with multiple complaints between 2022 and 2023 regarding illegal plumbing work, illegal conversion, and unauthorized work in an occupied multiple dwelling – all of which share the same disposition of "Inspector Unable To Gain Access – 2nd Final Attempt." Despite these enforcement actions, there are no current open violations on record.

The most recent permit activity shows an exterior work permit was issued in September 2019, but there have been no significant permit issuance records to address the various building concerns since then. The current tenant should be aware of the unresolved safety inspection attempts from early 2025, for which HPD recommends submitting new service requests if conditions persist.