Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

53 Vermilyea Ave

built 1925 · 5 stories · 25 apartments
Registered with the city: 53-57 Vermilyea Realty LLC · 1 other building here list it

Apartments named in these records

6 of this building’s 25 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.

Flooding

Issues on record
FEMA flood zone

Outside FEMA's 1% annual-chance flood zone: X (0.2% annual chance)

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: Deep and contiguous flooding (1 ft+); Moderate storm, today's sea levels: Deep and contiguous flooding (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

Above grade

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

Heat and hot water

No issues on record
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Federal FST-80), registration current since Mar 2025

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 Mar 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 2015

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 complaintsfound0 heat or hot water complaints

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 5 complaints, 2025

Pests and cleanliness

1 complaint, 2025

Fire and safety

Older records on file

Electrical

4 complaints, 2025–2026 · 1 in the past year

Structure and facade

Issues on record, most recently 2022

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

3 open: 2 about building conditions — gas (1), other conditions (1); 1 immediately hazardous (class C), 1 about paperwork or notices. 25 further violations from 2025–2026 were closed. 430 violations on record in all, 1986–2026 — the 49 most recent are listed here

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

1 open: 1 about building conditions

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

7 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.
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