2,115 recorded events, 1966–2026, from 17 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 680 DOB job filings, 672 DOB permits, 377 311 service requests.
Full record, year by year Support this site
No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.
No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.
81 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Illegal Parking (18) · Noise (14) · Lost Property (12) · Taxi Complaint (5) · Vendor Enforcement (4) · Non (4).
$55,254,779 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (215 filings with a declared cost) — a rough measure of how actively the owner maintains the building. Permit costs cover filed construction work only — they do not capture routine maintenance or repairs done without a permit.
| Tax year | City market value | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $257,989,000 | $116,095,050 |
| 2026 | $263,777,000 | $118,699,650 |
| 2027 | $270,063,000 | $121,528,350 |
The city's market estimate has risen 5% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
Tax exemptions on the roll: MUSEUM
| Heating fuel | NO2FUEL |
| Facade (Local Law 11) | SWARMP — "Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program": known facade conditions that must be repaired (cycle 9) |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe 2 | American | A | — |
| Staff Caff | Soups/Salads/Sandwiches | A | Mice evidence |
| Terrace CafÉ | American | A | — |
| The Modern | French | A | Mice evidence |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
4 restaurants · 2 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
1 food-poisoning report to 311 at this address in the last three years (0 with three or more people sick), shared by 4 restaurants
1 Food Establishment complaint to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Pet/Animal), shared by 4 restaurants · complaints filed by the public; DOHMH investigates, outcomes aren't published.
Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).
Not in a hurricane evacuation zone.
In the city's stormwater flood map only under the extreme-storm scenario (3.66 in/hr cloudburst with 2080 sea levels) — an Ida-scale event.
1 street-flooding or sewer-backup complaints at this address since 2012 (0 in the last three years).
Sources: FEMA flood maps (coastal), NYC DEP Stormwater Flood Maps (cloudburst), NYC hurricane evacuation zones, and 311 records for this address.
| Subway | 5 Av/53 St — E F · 250 ft straight-line (about a 1-minute walk) · station accessibility: none 57 St — M · 800 ft straight-line (about a 4-minute walk) · station accessibility: full |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: 5 Av / W 53 St — M1 M2 M3 · 400 ft |
| Citi Bike | W 54 St & 6 Ave · 250 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs Middle: M.S. 297. Confirm with the DOE's school search. |
Distances are straight-line, not walking routes. Transit locations from the MTA and Citi Bike, bike facilities from NYC DOT, school zones from the DOE's 2024–25 maps.
21 West 53 Street
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
81 311 service requests from this address in the last three years.
311 will ask for the address, the apartment if the problem is inside, and what's wrong. Contact details are optional for most complaints; food-poisoning reports can be anonymous. Complaints appear in the city's public 311 data, usually within a day or two, and then in the Live from 311 box on this page.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-15 | Agreement $105,610,800 — from THE TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE ; THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART to W2005/HINES WEST FIFTY-THIRD REALTY, LLC | $105,610,800 | |
| 2010-01-28 | Agreement $417,000 — from ADLAM, BART; FAUSTINO, ANGELIQUE F to CHARLES SCHWAB BANK | $417,000 | |
| 2010-01-28 | Mortgage $100,000 — from ADLAM, BART; FAUSTINO, ANGELIQUE F to CHARLES SCHWAB BANK | $100,000 | |
| 2009-12-24 | DEVR $10,880,000 — from THE UNIVERSITY CLUB to THE TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE ; 2005/HINES WEST FIFTY-THIRD REALTY, LLC; THE MUS | $10,880,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 98 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 10 | 125 |
| 2018 | 116 | 6 | 28 | 3 | 7 | 160 |
| 2019 | 81 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 12 | 134 |
| 2020 | 12 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 39 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
| 2022 | 24 | 2 | 45 | 0 | 4 | 75 |
| 2023 | 30 | 3 | 61 | 0 | 5 | 99 |
| 2024 | 16 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 47 |
| 2025 | 44 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 7 | 85 |
| 2026 | 28 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 8 | 64 |
Every one of the 2,115 recorded events, 1966–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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