Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

239 W 20 St

built 1910 · 6 stories · 24 apartments

Apartments named in these records

13 of this building’s 24 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

Flooding

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: Deep and contiguous flooding (1 ft+); 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

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 21 complaints, 2026
What has happened here
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 3 class C · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 18 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 20 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 12 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 20 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 19 class C · HPD violation
Show 34 more
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 20 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 13 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 24 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 12 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 14 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 16 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 24 complaint
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 18 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 9 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 19 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 18 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 3 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 16 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 11 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 3 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class B · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 12 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 15 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 19 complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water complaint
2014 Jan
Boiler permit
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (H.B. Smith 19HE-S/W-7), registration current since Oct 2025

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 Sep 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 (2 on record)

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 complaintsfound0 heat or hot water complaints

Water and pipes

3 complaints, 2024–2026 · 1 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

3 complaints, 2024–2025

Structure and facade

3 resolved since 2025
  • 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

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

21 open: 21 about building conditions — heat or hot water (12), gas (7), fire safety (2); 21 immediately hazardous (class C). 22 further violations from 2025–2026 were closed. 55 violations on record in all, 1995–2026 — the 43 most recent are listed here

2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 3 class C · closed
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 12 class C
2026 Jul
GasApt 12 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 19 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Jul
GasApt 13 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 13 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C
Show 35 more
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 24 class C
2026 Jul
GasApt 24 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2026 Jul
Fire safetyApt 24 class C · closed
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 14 class C
2026 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 16 class C
2026 Jul
GasApt 16 class C
2026 Jul
Fire safetyApt 16 class C · closed
2026 Jul
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 16 class B · closed
2026 Jul
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 16 class B · closed
2026 Jun
GasApt 9 class C
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 9 class C
2026 Jun
Fire safetyApt 9 class C
2026 Jun
GasApt 19 class C
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 19 class C
2026 Jun
Fire safetyApt 19 class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 3 class C
2026 Jun
Fire safetyApt 3 class C · closed
2026 Jun
GasApt 15 class C
2026 Jun
Fire safetyApt 15 class C
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class B · closed
2026 Jun
Doors and windows class B · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Jun
Fire safety class C · closed
2026 Jun
Doors and windowsApt 15 class B · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Jun
Fire safety class C · closed
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C
2025 Jan
PlumbingApt 2 class B · closed
2025 Jan
Fire safetyApt 2 class C · closed
2025 Jan
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2 class B · closed
2025 Jan
LeaksApt 2 class B · closed
2025 Jan
Fire safetyApt 2 class C · closed
2025 Jan
PestsApt 2 class C · closed
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

Permit history

18 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

  • DOB violationsfound0 open

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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