Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

70 Morningside Ave

built 1909 · 5 stories · 14 apartments
Also known as 361 W 121 St — one building, several doors.

Apartments named in these records

7 of this building’s 14 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: 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

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 6 complaints, 2025–2026 · 1 in the past year
What has happened here
2026 Oct
Heat or hot water complaint
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class B · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class A · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class A · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class A · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class B · HPD violation
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2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class B · HPD violation
2026 Jun
Heat or hot waterApt 1W class A · HPD violation
2025 Aug
Heat or hot waterApt 3S class B · HPD violation
2025 Feb
Heat or hot waterApt 3S complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3S complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 4S complaint
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Aug
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot water complaint
2024 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 2E complaint
2023 Nov
BE-EXT-LP Boiler DOB violation
2023 Sep
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · HPD violation
2023 Jun
Low Pressure Boiler DOB violation
2020 Jun
Boilers class - 2 · DOB violation
2015 Oct
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2009 Dec
Low Pressure Boiler never closed · DOB violation
2006 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2005 Dec
Fuel burning permit, Boiler permit
2005 Jan
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2004 Feb
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2003 Mar
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2002 Mar
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2001 Feb
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
2000 Feb
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
1999 Mar
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
1997 Sep
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
1997 Feb
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
1994 Oct
Fuel storage permit, Fuel burning permit, Boiler permit
1994 Apr
Boilers non-hazardous · never closed · DOB violation
1994 Mar
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
1993 Mar
Local Law 62/91 - Boilers never closed · DOB violation
Heat source

Boiler burning No. 2 oil (Federal FST-32), registration current since Apr 2024

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 2005 (2 on record)

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 · 7 complaints, 2025–2026 · 5 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 3 complaints, 2025–2026 · 2 in the past year

Electrical

2 complaints, 2026

Gas

  • Gas pipingno recordNo open gas piping filing violations. Inspection results themselves are not published

General condition and all records

HPD violations

23 open: 22 about building conditions — heat or hot water (8), walls, floors and stairs (5), smoke or CO detectors (4), leaks (2); 1 immediately hazardous (class C), 1 about paperwork or notices. Also 22 older records from 1974–2014 never closed. 5 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 97 violations on record in all, 1974–2026 — the 50 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

Permit history

8 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
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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