Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

37 Orchard St

built 1910 · 5 stories · 16 apartments
Also known as 68 Hester St — one building, several doors.
Registered with the city: 37 ORCHARD LLC; 37 ORCHARD, LLC

Apartments named in these records

5 of this building’s 16 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: Nuisance flooding (4 in. to 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 · 17 complaints, 2025–2026 · 15 in the past year
What has happened here
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Weil Mclain BG-778S), registration expired since Feb 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 Aug 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 1999

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

25 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

No issues on record
Water service line

Non-Lead (field inspection)

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

Pests and cleanliness

2 resolved since 2024

Electrical

Older records on file

Structure and facade

Older records on file

Rent and tenancy

On the state list
Rent stabilizationWhole tax lot

On the state's list of buildings with at least one rent-stabilized apartment (2024 registrations); listed for this tax lot (1 addresses), not under this building's address

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

7 open: 7 about building conditions — fire safety (3), heat or hot water (2), electrical (1), walls, floors and stairs (1); 4 immediately hazardous (class C). Also 5 older records from 2016 never closed. 23 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 135 violations on record in all, 1998–2026 — the 35 most recent are listed here

2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2026 Feb
Fire safetyApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Feb
Fire safetyApt 15 class C
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
Show 27 more
2026 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 15 class B · closed
2026 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 15 class B · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2026 Feb
Fire safetyApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2026 Feb
Doors and windowsApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Fire safetyApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 15 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Fire safetyApt 4 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 4 class C · closed
2025 Jun
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2024 Nov
Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed
2024 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2017 Jan
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2017 Jan
Fire safetyApt 8 class B
2017 Jan
Fire safetyApt 15 class B
2016 Oct
ElectricalApt 7 class C
2016 Sep
Fire safetyApt 12 class B · never closed
2016 Sep
Fire safetyApt 12 class B · never closed
2016 Sep
Fire safetyApt 12 class B · never closed
2016 Aug
Walls, floors and stairs class A · never closed
2016 Jul
Structure and facade class B · never closed
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

Permit history

57 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

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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