What's in a report
Every NycLiveSafe report is compiled from three public NYC Open Data sets. Together they show how a building is doing — from the problems neighbors report to the violations the city has on record.
How the overall risk is scored
The Overall riskat the top of a report — Low, Moderate, or High — is a quick read built from the building's open HPD violations: the city's verified and still-unresolved code problems.
- —Weighed by severity: immediately hazardous (Class C) counts most, hazardous (Class B) less, and non-hazardous (Class A, like peeling paint) doesn't count toward risk.
- —Scaled to building size, so a large building isn't flagged just for racking up more total violations than a small one.
- —Based on every open violation on record — not just the time range you've selected.
It's a starting point, not a verdict — the full event history is there so you can judge for yourself.
311 Service Requests
The city's non-emergency line. Residents report quality-of-life problems — noise, no heat or hot water, illegal parking, broken streetlights, sanitation. A cluster of requests around an address paints a picture of the everyday issues neighbors deal with and how the block is kept up.
HPD Complaints
Complaints tenants file with NYC's Department of Housing Preservation & Development about conditions inside their home — leaks, pests, no heat, mold — each marked emergency or non-emergency. Because they come from residents, they surface problems a listing won't mention; a steady stream can flag a landlord who's slow to fix things.
HPD Violations
When HPD inspects and confirms a housing-code problem, it issues a violation — graded Class A (non-hazardous) through Class C (immediately hazardous, like no heat in winter or lead paint). Unlike complaints, these are the city's verified findings: the most reliable signal of a building's condition and how seriously its owner takes upkeep.