Pigeon: NYC apartment building intel

About

Pigeon drops by every NYC apartment listing with the public record your landlord wishes you wouldn't read.

A little birdie about your building, sourced from NYC Open Data — no accounts, no tracking, no fees.

What Pigeon shows you
When you open any rental, sale, or building page on StreetEasy, an inline card appears with:

• HPD violations — open Class A / B / C counts and how many were closed in the last year, color-coded so a "concerning" building reads at a glance. • The real landlord behind the LLC — the registered corporate name plus the head officer's name, lifted from HPD registrations. • Eviction history — number of executed evictions filed against the building in the past five years (DOF marshal records). • 311 complaints — total complaints and heat / hot water complaints in the last 12 months. • Rent stabilization status — whether the building appears on the DHCR rent-stabilized list. • Source links — one click to HPDOnline, ACRIS, or JustFix's "Who Owns What" for the full record.

On a search results page, every listing gets a small chip showing the building's score (green / yellow / red) so you can triage 50 listings without clicking each one. Click any chip to open the full report without leaving the page.

What it doesn't do
• No accounts. No signups. No paywalls. • No tracking. No analytics. No third-party scripts running in your browser. • Pigeon only sends the listing's street address to our backend — never the URL, never the listing ID, never your IP or anything personal.

Why this exists
NYC tenants have the worst information asymmetry of any rental market in the country. Landlords route their buildings through generic LLC names, market apartments through brokers, and bury the same data the city publishes daily for free. Pigeon flips that on its head — the public record, where you're looking anyway, when it actually matters.

Not legal advice. Always verify directly with HPD before signing anything.

Data sources
All data comes from NYC Open Data and JustFix's NYCDB project: HPD Violations, HPD Complaints and Problems, HPD Registrations and Contacts, DOF Marshal Evictions, DHCR Rent Stabilization list, and NYC Department of City Planning's PLUTO tax-lot data. Pigeon refreshes from these sources monthly, with on-demand live updates for any building you view.