Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

195 Ave A

built 1910 · 6 stories · 40 apartments
Also known as 197 Ave A, 441 E 12 St — one building, several doors.

Apartments named in these records

15 of this building’s 40 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.

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 25 complaints, 2024–2026 · 21 in the past year
What has happened here
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2026 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 1A complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4F complaint
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2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4H complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4D complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4D complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 2A complaint
2025 Oct
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2023 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2023 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2023 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2023 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2023 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 5H complaint
2019 Mar
Heating/ventilation permit
2013 Mar
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2011 Dec
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2009 Dec
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2009 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2008 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
Heat source

Boiler burning No. 2 oil (Federal FST-60), registration current since Oct 2023

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 Dec 2025, 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 2017

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

32 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

1 complaint, 2026
Water service line

Non-Lead (excavation)

Lead Service Line Location Coordinates, as of 2026-01-30

Pests and cleanliness

2 complaints, 2025–2026

Fire and safety

Issues on record, most recently 2024

Electrical

1 complaint, 2026

Structure and facade

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

11 open: 11 about building conditions — smoke or CO detectors (6), fire safety (4), walls, floors and stairs (1); 3 immediately hazardous (class C). Also 6 older records from 1987–2010 never closed. 4 further violations from 2024–2025 were closed. 99 violations on record in all, 1987–2025 — the 21 most recent are listed here

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

6 open: 1 about building conditions, 2 about filings or paperwork, 3 older than 10 years

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

61 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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