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196-11 Jamaica Avenue

A 2-story building with 100 apartments, built in 1950, in Queens, NY 11423.

Addresses on the lot: 91-15 196th Street, 91-21 196th Street, 196-11 Jamaica Avenue, 196-03 Jamaica Avenue, 196-07 Jamaica Avenue.

HPD records as of October 26, 2026

306open HPD violations72 immediately hazardous
73complaints to HPD, past year5 about heat or hot water
94rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2023
April 2025latest housing court case21 cases on record, all years

196-11 Jamaica Avenue has 306 open HPD violations, 72 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 73 complaints to HPD in the past year, 5 about heat or hot water. It is registered to KRCM 1 REALTY CORP. 94 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023.

Does 196-11 Jamaica Avenue have open violations?

Yes: 306 open violations as of October 26, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most72
B, hazardous30 days147
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days87

It has an open class C violation, as 56% of NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments do. More on buildings by size

Of the violations HPD wrote here in the past year, 2 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 73 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to October 26, 2026, 5 of them about heat or hot water. Complaints reach HPD through 311; an inspector may then write a violation.

Among NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments, 72% had at least one complaint to HPD in the past year, and 57% had one about heat or hot water.

Who owns 196-11 Jamaica Avenue?

196-11 Jamaica Avenue is registered with HPD to KRCM 1 REALTY CORP. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in April 2025. HPD’s record has 21 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

It was once in HPD’s Alternative Enforcement Program, for the city’s worst-maintained buildings, and has since left it.

City marshals carried out no evictions here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 2% of residential buildings in 11423 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 196-11 Jamaica Avenue rent stabilized?

94 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023, up from 80 in 2018. That’s 94 of the building’s 100 apartments. Whether one apartment is stabilized is in its rent history, which the tenant can ask the state for.

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of October 26, 2026; evictions and rent-stabilized counts as of May 30, 2026; size and age from the city’s PLUTO. All from NYC Open Data. Public records, not legal advice. Tax lot 4-10464-0044.