Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

59 W 87 St

built 1890 · 5 stories · 6 apartments

Apartments named in these records

3 of this building’s 6 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 · 5 complaints, 2024–2025
What has happened here
2025 Nov
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot water class C · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · closed · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 1A class C · HPD violation
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2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 1A class B · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 1A class B · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot water class C · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 1A class C · HPD violation
2025 Mar
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Mar
Heat or hot waterApt 5 complaint
2025 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 5 complaint
2024 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 5 complaint
2024 Sep
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Apr
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2023 Apr
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · HPD violation
2019 Nov
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2018 Apr
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2017 Feb
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2015 Oct
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2015 Mar
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2014 May
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2011 Dec
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2008 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2005 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2004 Feb
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2002 Mar
Boiler permit
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (H.B. Smith 19-S-6 H.B. SMITH 19-S-6), registration expired since Aug 2001

Clean Air Tracking System (boiler registrations), as of 2026-10-19 · See this building's boiler registrations on NYC Open Data →
Boiler work permits

Latest boiler work permit 2002

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

  • Boiler inspection filingsnot requiredNot required: residential buildings with 6 or fewer units are exempt from annual filings
  • Heat and hot water complaintsfound0 heat or hot water complaints

Water and pipes

Issues on record, most recently 2023
Water service line

Non-Lead (records)

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

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record, most recently 2025

Fire and safety

Issues on record, most recently 2025

Electrical

Issues on record, most recently 2025

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

  • Basementno recordUnknown

General condition and all records

HPD violations

37 open: 35 about building conditions — doors and windows (11), walls, floors and stairs (10), heat or hot water (7), pests (2); 9 immediately hazardous (class C), 2 about paperwork or notices. Also 14 older records from 1973–2013 never closed. 3 further violations from 2023–2026 were closed. 55 violations on record in all, 1973–2026 — the 54 most recent are listed here

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

Resident complaints to the city

5 heat or hot water

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

Rent and tenancyNot on the state list
  • Rent stabilizationno recordNot on the state's 2024 list. Owners who register late or not at all are missing, so ask HCR about a specific apartment
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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