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550 Balcom Avenue

A 6-story building with 1,020 apartments, built in 1952, in the Bronx, NY 10465.

Addresses on the lot: 550 to 570 Balcom Avenue, 505 to 515 Calhoun Avenue, 545 to 555 Calhoun Avenue, 2727 to 2755 Dewey Avenue, 2773 to 2777 Dewey Avenue, 2791 to 2795 Dewey Avenue.

HPD records as of November 5, 2026

1open HPD violation1 hazardous
0complaints to HPD, past yearnone about heat
Nonerent-stabilized apartments registered2018 to 2023
December 2025latest housing court case6 cases on record, all years

550 Balcom Avenue has 1 open HPD violation. Tenants made no complaints to HPD in the past year. No owner is registered with HPD.

Does 550 Balcom Avenue have open violations?

Yes: 1 open violation as of November 5, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most0
B, hazardous30 days1
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days0

No class C violation is open. 56% of NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments have one. More on buildings by size

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made no complaints to HPD in the 12 months to November 5, 2026.

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 550 Balcom Avenue?

No current registration with HPD. Owners of buildings with three or more apartments must register every year, so a missing registration is worth asking about.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in December 2025. HPD’s record has 6 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

City marshals carried out 2 evictions here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 1% of residential buildings in 10465 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 550 Balcom Avenue rent stabilized?

No rent-stabilized apartments were registered here from 2018 to 2023. That doesn’t prove there are none: some owners don’t register them.

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of November 5, 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 2-05564-0001.