133-33 Sanford Avenue, Queens, NY 11355

133-33 Sanford Avenue is a 6-story, 47-unit residential building in Flushing, constructed in 1935 and currently owned by Chuntung So. The building has experienced recurring issues with essential services, most notably heating and hot water, with documented outages in March 2024 and October 2019, though in both cases, service was reported to have been restored after HPD intervention.

More recent concerns include multiple pest-related complaints in the latter half of 2023, with HPD unable to gain access for inspection in August 2023, and no violations found in September 2023. The building has several open violations requiring attention, including an active 2024 violation for failure to file the 2023 external low-pressure inspection and multiple annual bedbug report violations spanning from 2020 to 2024. Significant safety-related violations were documented in 2018 for apartment 6H, including issues with window frames, missing smoke detector, and absent carbon monoxide detector - though these appear to remain open without recent updates.

The building's infrastructure has faced challenges, with an active complaint about elevator service filed in May 2025, and historical concerns about illegal conversions with multiple inspection attempts between 2019 and 2020, though these investigations reportedly resulted in no violations. Compliance issues have been noted with various safety inspections, including failures to perform required Category 5 inspections and to file benchmarking reports, though some of these violations were subsequently dismissed. The building has generally passed rodent inspections, with records from 2011 showing compliance in this area.