Building health · MANHATTAN, NY

9 W 137 St

built 1920 · 6 stories · 18 apartments
Registered with the city: DOLPHIN PROPERTY SERVICES LLC · 22 other buildings here list it; CITYWIDE PRESERVATION LLC · 22 other buildings here list it; ECDO CITYWIDE PRESERVATION HOUSING DEVEL OPMENT · 24 other buildings here list it

Apartments named in these records

9 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.

Heat and hot water

11 complaints, 2024–2026 · 3 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Laars PNCH 500), registration current since Sep 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 Jan 2026, 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 2012

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 complaints

3 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)

Water and pipes

Issues on record (2024) · 1 complaint, 2025

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record, most recently 2025

Fire and safety

Issues on record, most recently 2024

Electrical

Older records on file

Structure and facade

Issues on record, most recently 2025
  • Facade ratingnot requiredNot required: facade inspections apply only to buildings taller than 6 stories
  • Sidewalk shed and scaffoldingfoundNo active shed permit; permits since Sep 2025, last expired Sep 2026
  • Landmark statusno recordNot in a historic district on record

Flooding

No 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: 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

20 open: 20 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (5), plumbing (3), rubbish and cleanliness (3), doors and windows (2); 4 immediately hazardous (class C). Also 1 older record from 2009 never closed. 25 further violations from 2024–2026 were closed. 73 violations on record in all, 2009–2026 — the 61 most recent are listed here

2026 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class A
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B
2025 Aug
PestsApt 5C class C
2025 Aug
Doors and windowsApt 5C class A · closed
2025 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Aug
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Aug
Doors and windowsApt 5C class B · closed
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2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Aug
LeaksApt 5C class B · closed
2025 Feb
Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork · closed
2025 Jan
Pests class C · closed
2025 Jan
Fire safetyApt 5B class C · closed
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 5B class C · closed
2025 Jan
PestsApt 2A class C · closed
2025 Jan
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 2A class B · closed
2025 Jan
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 2A class B · closed
2025 Jan
Walls, floors and stairsApt 2A class C · closed
2025 Jan
LeaksApt 2A class C · closed
2025 Jan
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 2A class C · closed
2024 Nov
Walls, floors and stairsApt 6C class A · closed
2024 Nov
Rubbish and cleanliness class B · closed
2024 Nov
Pests class C · closed
2024 Nov
Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork · closed
2024 Nov
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2024 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 6C class B
2024 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 6C class B
2024 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 6C class B
2024 Oct
PlumbingApt 6C class B
2024 Oct
PlumbingApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
MoldApt 6C class C
2024 Apr
Doors and windowsApt 6C class A
2024 Apr
PlumbingApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
PestsApt 6C class C
2024 Apr
Fire safetyApt 6C class C
2024 Apr
Doors and windowsApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
Other conditionsApt 6C class B
2024 Apr
Rubbish and cleanliness class B
2023 Sep
Rubbish and cleanliness class B
2023 Sep
Rubbish and cleanliness class B
2009 Mar
Fire safetyApt 2B class B · never closed
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

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

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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