Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

2837 Frederick Douglass Blvd

built 1910 · 5 stories · 9 apartments
Registered with the city: mcs PROPERTIES LLC · 4 other buildings here list it; 2837 FREDERICK DOUGLAS ASSOCIATES LP; HARLEM URBAN DEV CORP · 5 other buildings here list it

Apartments named in these records

4 of this building’s 9 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 · 1 complaint, 2026
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

Heat and hot water complaints

1 heat or hot water complaint

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)

  • Heat sourceno recordNo boiler registration or district steam on record
  • Boiler work permitsno recordNo boiler work permits on record

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 6 complaints, 2025–2026 · 5 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 5 complaints, 2025–2026 · 4 in the past year

Electrical

Issues on record · 3 complaints, 2025–2026 · 2 in the past year

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

  • BasementfoundNo basement

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 pipingno recordNo open gas piping filing violations. Inspection results themselves are not published

General condition and all records

HPD violations

88 open: 88 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (23), smoke or CO detectors (12), gas (10), electrical (7); 30 immediately hazardous (class C). Also 5 older records from 2011–2012 never closed. 18 further violations from 2025–2026 were closed. 352 violations on record in all, 1979–2026 — the 111 most recent are listed here

2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5B class A
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2026 Oct
GasApt 3B class B
2026 Oct
ElectricalApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 3B class B
2026 Oct
ElectricalApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
MoldApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class B
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class C
2026 Oct
LeaksApt 3B class A
2026 Oct
LeaksApt 3B class B
2026 Oct
MoldApt 3B class B
2026 Oct
MoldApt 5B class A
2026 Oct
Other conditionsApt 5B class A
2026 Oct
Heat or hot waterApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Heat or hot waterApt 5B class C
2026 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 5B class A
2026 Oct
Heat or hot waterApt 5B class C
2026 Jun
Fire safetyApt 2B class C · closed
2026 May
Fire safetyApt 5A class C · closed
2026 May
MoldApt 3B class A · closed
2026 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2026 Mar
Other conditions class B · closed
2026 Jan
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class B · closed
2026 Jan
PestsApt 3B class C · closed
2025 Nov
Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed
2025 Sep
MoldApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
LeaksApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
PlumbingApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class A · closed
2025 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
MoldApt 3B class A · closed
2025 Sep
LeaksApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
ElectricalApt 3B class B · closed
2025 Sep
PestsApt 3B class C · closed
2025 Sep
PestsApt 3B class C · closed
and 50 more at the source
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

5 open: 1 about building conditions, 1 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

1 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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