Building record from city data · MANHATTAN, NY

21 W 137 St

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built 1920 · 6 stories · 18 apartments · BIN 1053908 · BBL 1017350020

Worth knowing
23 open immediately hazardous (class C) HPD violations about fire safety and pests and heat or hot water and doors and windows and mold and plumbing and walls, floors and stairs
Source: Housing Maintenance Code Violations · as of 2026-10-19
Worth knowing
Also on record
Clean in the records
Registered with the city

PRESTIGE MANAGEMENT, WEST 137 STREET LP

Heat or hot water: 5 reports to the city since 2024
2024
2025Heat or hot water · Nov 2025 · 2 reports (4 complaints)Nov 12, 2025Nov 12, 2025 (2nd)Nov 14, 2025Nov 30, 2025
2026Heat or hot water · Jan 2026 · 1 report (1 complaint)Jan 20, 2026Heat or hot water · Feb 2026 · 1 report (1 complaint)Feb 11, 2026Heat or hot water · Jun 2026 · 1 report (1 complaint)Jun 15, 2026
Source: HPD Complaints and Problems · as of 2026-10-20

Also reported

2024 – 2026

A filled month had a report to HPD; darker means more than one, and the past year is brightest. Tap one to read it. Complaints within a week count as one report. Records list complaints filed, not conditions found.

Apartments named in these records

7 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
  • Facade ratingnot requiredNot required: facade inspections apply only to buildings taller than 6 stories
  • Sidewalk shed and scaffoldingfoundNo active shed permit
  • Landmark statusno recordNot in a historic district on record

Heat and hot water

Issues on record (2023) · 7 complaints, 2025–2026
Heat source

Boiler burning No. 2 oil (Federal Fst 90 FEDERAL FST 90), registration cancelled since Nov 1986

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: yes

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

Heat and hot water complaints

6 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)

  • Boiler work permitsno recordNo boiler work permits on record

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 7 complaints, 2025–2026 · 6 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 4 complaints, 2025–2026 · 1 in the past year

Electrical

Issues on record · 1 complaint, 2026

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

76 open: 76 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (14), doors and windows (11), fire safety (10), mold (7); 23 immediately hazardous (class C). 8 further violations from 2025–2026 were closed. 167 violations on record in all, 2010–2026 — the 84 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

9 open: 8 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

Permit history

5 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.