Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

161 Edgecombe Ave

built 1920 · 5 stories · 15 apartments

Apartments named in these records

8 of this building’s 15 apartments are named in a city record. The rest have no record naming them, which is the usual case.

These are city records about an apartment, not about anyone who lives or lived there. They may not be used to screen a tenant.

Fire and safety

Issues on record

Structure and facade

Issues on record

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 10 complaints, 2024–2026 · 8 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Laars MT2H400), registration current since Feb 2024

Clean Air Tracking System (boiler registrations), as of 2026-10-19 · See this building's boiler registrations on NYC Open Data →
Boiler inspection filings

Latest accepted inspection Jan 2026, defects reported: no

DOB NOW: Safety Boiler, as of 2026-10-17 · See the boiler filings at DOB →
What this counts

Accepted annual boiler inspection filings, any date

Boiler work permits

Latest boiler work permit 2014

DOB Permit Issuance (BIS), as of 2026-10-19
What this counts

DOB boiler permits (BIS and DOB NOW); a permit dates work, not the boiler's age

Heat and hot water complaints

4 heat or hot water complaints

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-19 · See the complaints at HPD Online →
What this counts

HPD complaints, heat season 2025–26 (Oct 1–May 31)

Water and pipes

Issues on record (2024) · 5 complaints, 2024–2026 · 2 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 4 complaints, 2024–2026 · 1 in the past year

Electrical

Issues on record (2025) · 2 complaints, 2024–2025

Flooding

No issues on record
FEMA flood zone

Outside FEMA's 1% annual-chance flood zone: X

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of 2026-10-19
What this counts

Effective FIRM zones touching the building footprint

Stormwater flooding

Extreme storm, 2080 sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Moderate storm, 2050 sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Moderate storm, today's sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Limited storm, today's sea levels: Not loaded (file format unreadable)

NYC Stormwater Flood Maps, as of 2024-07-03
What this counts

Mapped ponding touching the building footprint

BasementWhole tax lot

Below grade

PLUTO (tax lot data), as of 2026-08-24

Rent and tenancy

On the state list
Rent stabilization

On the state's list of buildings with at least one rent-stabilized apartment (2024 registrations). Listed under the J-51 tax program, so stabilization can end when the exemption does

Rent Stabilized Building Lists (2024 HCR registrations), as of 2025-11-30
What this counts

The list doesn't say which apartments are stabilized, and being listed isn't proof of current status. For a specific apartment, request its rent history from HCR

General condition and all records

HPD violations

59 open: 58 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (22), pests (10), electrical (6), smoke or CO detectors (6); 12 immediately hazardous (class C), 1 about paperwork or notices. 25 further violations from 2026 were closed. 419 violations on record in all, 1991–2026 — the 168 most recent are listed here

2026 Sep
Fire safety class C
2026 Sep
PestsApt 5B class C
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2026 Jun
PestsApt 5A class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 5A class C · closed
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2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 4C class C
2026 Jun
Other conditionsApt 4C class A
2026 Jun
MoldApt 3C class C
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Jun
PestsApt 4C class C · closed
2026 Jun
PestsApt 4C class C · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
PlumbingApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Doors and windowsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Other conditionsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Doors and windowsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Doors and windowsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
LeaksApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3C class B · closed
2026 Jun
PestsApt 3C class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 3C class C · closed
2026 Jun
MoldApt 1C class B
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1C class A
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1C class B · closed
2026 May
Other conditions class I · paperwork
2025 Sep
MoldApt 5C class C
2025 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5B class B
2025 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5B class B
2025 Aug
ElectricalApt 5B class B
2025 Aug
PestsApt 5B class C
2025 Aug
ElectricalApt 5B class B
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B
2025 Aug
ElectricalApt 5C class B
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B
2025 Aug
PestsApt 5C class C
2025 May
PestsApt 5A class C
2024 Nov
MoldApt 1C class B
2024 Nov
LeaksApt 1C class B
2024 Nov
LeaksApt 1C class B
2024 Nov
LeaksApt 1C class B
and 9 more at the source
Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-19 · Read these violations in full at HPD Online →
What this counts

Open HPD violations inspected in the last 10 years; class C = immediately hazardous. Paperwork = failure to file, notify or certify

DOB violations

2 open: 2 about filings or paperwork

DOB Violations, as of 2026-10-18 · Read these violations in full at DOB →
What this counts

Open DOB, ECB and DOB NOW Safety violations, any date, one per violation. ECB class 1 = hazardous, class 2 = major

Permit history

6 permits since 1990

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits, as of 2026-10-17 · See every permit at DOB →
What this counts

DOB permits issued (DOB NOW and legacy BIS), one per job and work type; excludes sheds

Nothing on record

Gasno record
  • Gas pipingno recordNo open gas piping filing violations. Inspection results themselves are not published
Energyno record
  • Energynot requiredNot required: energy reporting applies to buildings over 25,000 sq ft
ElevatorsNot applicable
  • Elevatorsnot requiredNo elevators registered to this building

Sources

23 datasets

Each date is when we last checked that dataset, not when the record itself was created.

Every row shows the record it came from and the date it was last checked.
These are city records, not an inspection by Blueflo. Every item shows its source and the date it was last checked.
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