Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

530 W 178 St

built 1906 · 5 stories · 55 apartments

Apartments named in these records

20 of this building’s 55 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.

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 22 complaints, 2024–2026 · 3 in the past year
What has happened here
2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed · HPD violation
2026 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3D complaint
2025 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 2J complaint
2025 Nov
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2025 Oct
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Oct
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
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2025 Oct
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 May
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2025 May
Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation
2025 May
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3C class C · closed · HPD violation
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3D complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 2I complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 1E complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 1E complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 4D class C · closed · HPD violation
2024 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 4D complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 4D complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Nov
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Oct
Heat or hot waterApt 4H complaint
2024 Oct
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Oct
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Sep
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2024 Aug
Heat or hot waterApt 1G complaint
2024 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 5J complaint
2024 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 5J complaint
2024 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 5J complaint
2024 Mar
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 5G complaint
2024 Mar
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 4H complaint
2023 Nov
BE-EXT-LP Boiler DOB violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2019 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4L class C · HPD violation
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Weil Mclain 586), registration expired since Mar 2020

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 Sep 2022, defects reported: yes

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 2025 (2 on record)

DOB Permit Issuance (BIS), as of 2026-10-17
What this counts

DOB boiler permits (BIS and DOB NOW); a permit dates work, not the boiler's age

Heat and hot water complaints

4 heat or hot water complaints

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-18 · 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 · 7 complaints, 2024–2026 · 2 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 2 complaints, 2024

Fire and safety

3 resolved since 2024

Electrical

1 complaint, 2026

Structure and facade

Issues on record, most recently 2025

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

27 open: 27 about building conditions — pests (10), walls, floors and stairs (8), smoke or CO detectors (3), leaks (2); 11 immediately hazardous (class C). 25 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 361 violations on record in all, 2013–2026 — the 78 most recent are listed here

2026 Sep
LeaksApt 2A class B
2026 Sep
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 2A class B
2026 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2026 Feb
Leaks class A · closed
2026 Feb
Smoke or CO detectors class A · closed
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork · closed
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2026 Feb
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2026 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2025 Dec
PestsApt 5D class C
2025 Nov
Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed
2025 Oct
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2025 Oct
Fire safety class B · closed
2025 Oct
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2025 Oct
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 3J class B
2025 Oct
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 3J class B
2025 Sep
Doors and windowsApt 5J class A
2025 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3G class A
2025 Sep
Pests class C
2025 Sep
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2025 Sep
Fire safety class B · closed
2025 Jun
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2025 May
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2025 May
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3C class C · closed
2024 Nov
Heat or hot waterApt 4D class C · closed
2024 Nov
Leaks class A · closed
2024 Nov
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2B class B
2024 Nov
LeaksApt 2B class B
2024 Nov
Plumbing class B · closed
2024 Nov
Electrical class B · closed
2024 Nov
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2024 Nov
Fire safety class B · closed
2024 Jun
PlumbingApt 5J class B · closed
2023 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 3G class A
2023 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2L class A
2023 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2I class A
2023 Oct
PestsApt 2G class C
2023 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1G class A
2022 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2L class A
2022 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 1G class A
2022 Feb
Pests class C
2022 Jan
Mold class B
2021 Dec
PestsApt 4K class C
2021 Dec
PestsApt 3C class C
2021 Mar
MoldApt 5C class B
2019 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4L class C
2019 Sep
PestsApt 5J class C
2019 Aug
PestsApt 3C class C
Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-18 · 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: 3 about building conditions, 1 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

Resident complaints to the city

22 heat or hot water, 5 plumbing, 2 leaks, 2 mold, 1 electrical, 1 paint or plaster

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-18 · See the complaints at HPD Online →
What this counts

HPD complaints received in the last 2 years; the list below is every complaint on record for the last three years

Permit history

6 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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