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234 West 42 Street · Manhattan · BBL 1010130012 · generated 2026-10-20 · FREE Print / save PDF

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This building is not graded (non-residential or no residential units on record) — the report below covers its full public record.

Open with the city right now

status snapshot refreshed weekly from HPD records

Patterns

5 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2024–25: 1).

No bedbug-infested units reported in the last three years of filings.

What 311 hears from this address

425 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Homeless Person Assistance (284) · Consumer Complaint (17) · Food Establishment (15) · Encampment (15) · Non (11) · Illegal Parking (10).

Filed construction activity

$27,844,227 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (128 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.

Registered with HPD — the names behind the building

as filed by the owner in the building's HPD registration

What the city thinks it's worth

The city's market estimate has risen 7% between tax years 2025 and 2027.

Tax exemptions on the roll: NYC ECON DEV CORP

Building systems

Restaurants in this building

Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint

8 restaurants · 4 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map

2 food-poisoning reports to 311 at this address in the last three years (1 with three or more people sick), shared by 8 restaurants
15 Food Establishment complaints to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Rodents/Insects/Garbage, Food Protection), shared by 8 restaurants · complaints filed by the public; DOHMH investigates, outcomes aren't published.

Flood exposure

Not in the FEMA 1%-annual-chance floodplain (2015 preliminary maps).

Not in a hurricane evacuation zone.

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.

Getting around

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.

Report a problem to 311

234 West 42 Street Copy address

425 311 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.

Sales, deeds & mortgages

Most recent mortgage recorded against this lot: $8,442,330 on 2010-09-23 (lender: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), covering 2 lots — the amount covers all of them. Face amount at recording — it may have since been paid down, refinanced or satisfied. View the recorded document.

Ten-year activity

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Year	Construction	Enforcement	Housing & tenants	Ownership & money	Health & systems	Total
2017	14	44	37	0	15	110
2018	47	37	37	0	16	137
2019	56	48	47	1	17	169
2020	11	7	19	1	16	54
2021	36	9	21	0	5	71
2022	52	5	44	0	12	113
2023	24	39	168	0	10	241
2024	55	15	189	0	17	276
2025	34	7	111	2	9	163
2026	29	3	106	0	26	164

The last 12 months — 178 records

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