Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

17 W 137 St

built 1920 · 6 stories · 18 apartments

Apartments named in these records

11 of this building’s 18 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 · 12 complaints, 2025–2026 · 10 in the past year
What has happened here
2026 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 3B complaint
2026 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A complaint
2026 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 2B complaint
Show 31 more
2025 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 3C complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 1B complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5C complaint
2025 Apr
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A class C · HPD violation
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · HPD violation
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A class C · HPD violation
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A complaint
2024 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 1C class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 6C complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 5B complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6C complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3A class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 60 complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 5B complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6C class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3B complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 1C class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A complaint
1994 Jan
Boiler permit, Fuel burning permit
Heat source

Boiler burning No. 2 oil (Federal Fst-60 FEDERAL FST-60), registration expired since Nov 1993

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 2023, 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 1994

DOB Permit Issuance (BIS), as of 2026-10-17
What this counts

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

Heat and hot water complaints

10 heat or hot water complaints

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-18 · 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 · 2 complaints, 2026

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record (2025) · 2 complaints, 2026

Electrical

Issues on record, most recently 2024

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)

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

Gas

Gas piping

Open violation for not filing the periodic gas piping inspection (2026)

DOB Safety Violations, as of 2026-10-18
What this counts

Paperwork violation: the filing is missing, which is not a finding about the pipes

General condition and all records

HPD violations

45 open: 45 about building conditions — doors and windows (13), fire safety (6), walls, floors and stairs (6), electrical (5); 14 immediately hazardous (class C). 19 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 133 violations on record in all, 2010–2026 — the 64 most recent are listed here

2026 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 6A class B
2026 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 6A class B
2026 Oct
Doors and windows class C
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2026 Oct
Fire safety class B
2026 Oct
Leaks class B
2026 May
Fire safety class C · closed
2026 May
Fire safety class C · closed
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2026 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2025 Nov
Fire safety class B
2025 Nov
Fire safetyApt 5C class C
2025 Jun
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2025 May
Fire safety class A
2025 May
Rubbish and cleanliness class B
2025 Feb
PestsApt 3B class C
2025 Feb
Doors and windowsApt 3B class A
2025 Feb
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class A
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A class C
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water class C
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6A class C
2024 Oct
Other conditionsApt 3B class A
2024 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class B
2024 Oct
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Oct
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Oct
ElectricalApt 3B class B
2024 Oct
PestsApt 3B class C
2024 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 3B class B
2024 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class C · closed
2024 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1C class A
2024 May
Fire safety class C
2024 May
Doors and windows class B
2024 Feb
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1C class A
2024 Feb
Lead-based paintApt 1C class C · closed
2024 Feb
Lead-based paintApt 1C class C · closed
2024 Feb
Doors and windows class C · closed
2024 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 1C class C · closed
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3A class C · closed
2024 Jan
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Jan
Doors and windows class C · closed
2024 Jan
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6C class C · closed
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 1C class C · closed
and 1 more at the source
Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-18 · 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: 1 about building conditions, 1 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

Resident complaints to the city

12 heat or hot water, 2 doors or windows, 2 general repairs, 1 appliances, 1 floors or stairs, 1 leaks, 1 mold, 1 outside the building, 1 pests, 1 plumbing

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-18 · See the complaints at HPD Online →
What this counts

HPD complaints received in the last 2 years; the list below is every complaint on record for the last three years

Permit history

7 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

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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