525 recorded events, 1968–2026, from 16 city data systems. The city's paper trail here is mostly 126 DOB job filings, 119 DOB permits, 64 311 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.
15 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Noise (4) · Illegal Parking (1) · Rodent (1) · Sidewalk Condition (1) · New Tree Request (1) · Taxi Report (1).
$22,722,231 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (34 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 | $11,421,000 | $5,139,450 |
| 2026 | $11,677,000 | $5,254,650 |
| 2027 | $11,228,000 | $5,052,600 |
The city's market estimate has fallen 2% between tax years 2025 and 2027.
Tax exemptions on the roll: NYS URBAN DEV (ESDC)
| Heating fuel | NATURALGAS |
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Theatre Concessions | Bottled Beverages | Not yet graded | — |
Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint
1 restaurant · 0 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map
Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).
Hurricane evacuation zone 6 of 6 — zone 1 evacuates first.
Not in the city's stormwater (cloudburst) flood maps under any modeled scenario.
No street-flooding or sewer-backup complaints on record at this address.
Sources: FEMA flood maps (coastal), NYC DEP Stormwater Flood Maps (cloudburst), NYC hurricane evacuation zones, and 311 records for this address.
| Subway | 125 St — A B C D · 750 ft straight-line (about a 4-minute walk) · station accessibility: full 125 St — 2 3 · 0.3 mi straight-line (about a 7-minute walk) · station accessibility: none |
| Bus | Nearest boarding stop: W 125 St / Frederick Douglass Blvd — M101 M125 · 250 ft |
| Citi Bike | Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & W 126 St · 600 ft · station location as of 2026-09-23; live availability |
| School zones (2024–25 map) | Elementary: P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman. 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.
253 West 125 Street
| Rats or mice | Rats or mice |
| Food poisoning | Food poisoning |
| Food safety complaint | Food safety complaint |
| Anything else | Anything else |
15 311 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.
Most recent mortgage recorded against this lot: $1,500,000 on 1988-03-29 (lender: City Of New York). Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.
| Date | Record | Amount | Per res. unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-28 | TERL $50,973 — from BANC OF AMERICA HISTORIC NEW VENTURE LLC to APOLLO THEATER MANAGING MEMBER INC | $50,973 | |
| 1988-03-29 | Mortgage $1,500,000 — from APOLLO THEATRE INVSTR GP to CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,500,000 | |
| 1987-03-16 | Mortgage $5,570,000 — from APOLLO THEATRE ETAL to MANUFACTURERS HANO TR CO | $5,570,000 | |
| 1984-11-20 | Mortgage $5,400,000 — from APOLLO THEATRE INVSTR GP to MANUFACTURERS HANV TR CO | $5,400,000 |
| Year | Construction | Enforcement | Housing & tenants | Ownership & money | Health & systems | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 19 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 24 |
| 2023 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 22 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 23 |
| 2025 | 33 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 70 |
| 2026 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 24 |
Every one of the 525 recorded events, 1968–2026, is laid out year by year in the full report (print-ready).
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