Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

493 2 Ave

built 1920 · 5 stories · 18 apartments

Apartments named in these records

10 of this building’s 18 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

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 10 complaints, 2025–2026 · 9 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Weil Mclain EGH125), 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 Oct 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

Heat and hot water complaints

11 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)

  • Boiler work permitsno recordNo boiler work permits on record

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 10 complaints, 2024–2026 · 7 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 8 complaints, 2024–2026 · 5 in the past year

Fire and safety

Issues on record, most recently 2024

Electrical

Issues on record · 5 complaints, 2025–2026

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

BasementWhole tax lot

Below grade

PLUTO (tax lot data), as of 2026-08-24

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

21 open: 21 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (4), lead-based paint (3), electrical (2), fire safety (2); 10 immediately hazardous (class C). 23 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 84 violations on record in all, 1989–2026 — the 44 most recent are listed here

2026 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2026 Apr
Other conditions class B
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairsApt 16 class B
2026 Feb
Fire safety class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 16 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 16 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 8 class B · closed
2026 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 8 class B · closed
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2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 8 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 8 class C · closed
2026 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 16 class C
2026 Jan
Walls, floors and stairs class A
2026 Jan
Rubbish and cleanliness class B · closed
2026 Jan
ElectricalApt 1 class C · closed
2026 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 6 class C
2026 Jan
PlumbingApt 6 class B
2026 Jan
ElectricalApt 6 class B
2026 Jan
PestsApt 6 class C · closed
2026 Jan
PestsApt 6 class C · closed
2025 Nov
PestsApt 6 class C
2025 Nov
PlumbingApt 6 class B
2025 Nov
ElectricalApt 6 class B
2025 Nov
Fire safety class C · closed
2025 May
PlumbingApt 6 class B · closed
2024 May
Fire safety class C
2024 May
Fire safety class C
2024 May
Doors and windowsApt 9 class C
2024 May
PestsApt 9 class C · closed
2024 May
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 9 class B · closed
2024 May
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 9 class B · closed
2024 Feb
Walls, floors and stairsApt 14 class A
2024 Feb
LeaksApt 14 class B
2024 Feb
LeaksApt 14 class B
2024 Feb
Walls, floors and stairsApt 14 class B
2024 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2024 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 14 class C · closed
2024 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 9 class C · closed
2024 Feb
PestsApt 9 class C · closed
2024 Feb
PestsApt 9 class C · closed
2024 Feb
LeaksApt 14 class C · closed
2020 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 6 class C
2020 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 6 class C
2020 Oct
Lead-based paintApt 6 class C
2020 Oct
PestsApt 6 class C
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

4 open: 2 about building conditions, 2 about filings or paperwork

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

34 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.
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