Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

489 Columbus Ave

built 1892 · 6 stories · 16 apartments
Registered with the city: R.E.M. RESIDENTIAL · 72 other buildings here list it; COL, LLC

Apartments named in these records

6 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.

Structure and facade

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: Nuisance flooding (4 in. to 1 ft); Moderate storm, today's sea levels: Nuisance flooding (4 in. to 1 ft); 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 (2024) · 9 complaints, 2024–2026 · 5 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (H.B. Smith G19HE-S-6), registration current since Oct 2026

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 May 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 2013

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

3 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

Issues on record · 2 complaints, 2024–2026 · 1 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record (2025) · 2 complaints, 2024–2025

Fire and safety

8 resolved since 2024

Electrical

Issues on record · 1 complaint, 2026

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

28 open: 26 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (6), pests (5), doors and windows (3), other conditions (3); 5 immediately hazardous (class C), 2 about paperwork or notices. Also 8 older records from 2000–2011 never closed. 21 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 118 violations on record in all, 2000–2026 — the 57 most recent are listed here

2026 Aug
Electrical class B
2026 Aug
Other conditions class A
2026 Aug
Electrical class B
2026 Jun
Other conditions class A
2026 Jun
Leaks class A
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork
2026 Jun
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2026 Jun
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork
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2026 Mar
Doors and windows class B
2026 Mar
Doors and windows class B
2026 Mar
Fire safety class C · closed
2026 Mar
Fire safety class C · closed
2025 Dec
Fire safety class C · closed
2025 Jul
PestsApt 3N class C
2025 Jul
PestsApt 3N class C
2025 Jul
PlumbingApt 3N class B
2025 Jul
PlumbingApt 3N class B
2025 Jul
PlumbingApt 3N class B
2024 Oct
PestsApt 2A class C
2024 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
LeaksApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
ElectricalApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
LeaksApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class B · closed
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class A
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class B
2024 Jul
Heat or hot waterApt 2N class A
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class A
2024 Jul
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2N class B
2024 Jul
LeaksApt 2N class C · closed
2024 Apr
Heat or hot waterApt 5N class C · closed
2024 Apr
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Apr
Heat or hot waterApt 5N class C · closed
2024 Apr
Pests class C
2024 Apr
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2024 Apr
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Apr
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Apr
Heat or hot waterApt 5D class C · closed
2024 Apr
Heat or hot waterApt 5D class C · closed
2024 Mar
Fire safety class C · closed
2024 Mar
Fire safety class C · closed
2023 Aug
MoldApt 2N class B
2023 Aug
Other conditionsApt 2N class B
2019 Jun
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3N class A
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

3 open: 1 about filings or paperwork, 2 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

26 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

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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