Hi fellow tenants!
I made a website which shows you pretty much every available piece of data on every HPD registered building. Some of the data you can find on the city sites, like HPD violations, registered landlord & agents, Dept of Buildings permits & violations, etc. There are some other data sources, like OATH cases and penalties, rodent inspections, and sales, that I don't believe are available to search anywhere else - including for-profit sites like Propertyshark! And, you can check which other properties your landlords are linked to, which hasn't been easy before.
Using all that data, I also built an "AI" that predicts whether a building is likely to have maintenance issues (i.e. class C violations) in the coming year. I think this is the first time anyone has used machine learning tech to try to spot bad landlords...
If you're interested in helping make this the most powerful tool for NYC tenants to research buildings and landlords - please try it out and let me know what you think! There is a "chat" feature on the page, just click the little blue message button in the bottom right corner of the screen to send me your feedback
The site is here:
https://beta.getaugrented.com/
Thanks for your help!