261 W 116 St — timeline — Blueflo

Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

built 1910 · 5 stories · 16 apartments

Also known as 2154 Frederick Douglass Blvd, 2158 Frederick Douglass Blvd, 2160 Frederick Douglass Blvd — one building, several doors.

Registered with the city: Central Harlem Mutual Housing Association HDFC · 2 other buildings here list it; CENTRAL HARLEM MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOC HOUS ING DEVE FUND CRP. · 1 other building here list it

The building’s record over time

Filings, permits, complaints and violations from city records, newest first. Highlighted rows are unresolved and from the last year; older unresolved records are marked “never closed”. Tap any row to read it on the agency’s own site.

Walls, floors and stairsApt 2B class A

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

Heat or hot waterApt 2B class B

ElectricalApt 2B class A

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Latest accepted inspection Apr 2026, defects reported: no

DOB NOW: Safety Boiler

Fire safety class A

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Fire safety class B

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

ElectricalApt 3D class B

LeaksApt 3D class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 3D class B

PlumbingApt 3D class C · closed

ElectricalApt 3D class C · closed

Heat or hot water, paint or plaster, plumbing, leaksApt 3D

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Doors and windows class B

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

Fire safetyApt 3D class B

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 3D class B

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 3D class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 3D class A

ElectricalApt 3D class B

Other conditionsApt 3D class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 3D class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 3D class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 5D

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Appliances, electrical, general repairs, moldApt 4

Heat or hot waterApt 3D

Heat or hot waterApt 3D

Heat or hot waterApt 2B

Heat or hot waterApt 4B

Heat or hot waterApt 3D

Heat or hot water

Doors or windowsApt 2B

Doors and windows class B · closed

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

Floors or stairs, general repairsApt 2

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Doors or windows, floors or stairsApt 4B

Doors or windowsApt 2B

Floors or stairsApt 4B

ElectricalApt 3A

Heat or hot water class C · closed

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

Heat or hot waterApt 3D class C · closed

Heat or hot water

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems

Walls, floors and stairsApt 5A class A

Housing Maintenance Code Violations

LeaksApt 5A class B

Boiler burning natural gas (Federal FST-32), registration expired since Apr 2022

Clean Air Tracking System (boiler registrations)

General construction permit

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits

General construction permit, Plumbing permit

No active shed permit; permits since Nov 2016, last expired Feb 2018

Scaffold permit

General construction permit

2016 Mar

Latest boiler work permit 2016 (2 on record)

DOB Permit Issuance (BIS)

Plumbing permit, Boiler permit

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits

Fire protection permit

Plumbing permit, Heating/ventilation permit

2007 Sep

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

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

1910

Built

PLUTO (tax lot data)

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