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685 5 Avenue · Manhattan · BBL 1012897501 · generated 2026-10-20 · FREE Print / save PDF

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Where the penalty points come from

Open with the city right now

No current HPD flags in the latest weekly snapshot: no open violations, no pending litigation, no active vacate orders, and not in the Alternative Enforcement Program.

Patterns

No heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years.

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

$1,250 in enforcement penalties imposed (ECB/OATH) in the last three years.

What 311 hears from this address

35 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Illegal Parking (10) · Mobile Food Vendor (7) · Vendor Enforcement (3) · Dirty Condition (2) · Street Condition (2) · Lost Property (2).

Filed construction activity

$34,458,278 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (73 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.

Rent-stabilization signals

2 of 3 signals present. This is the classic profile of a rent-stabilized building (pre-1974, 6+ units) — many units in such buildings remain stabilized. The definitive answer for any unit: request its rent history from NYS Homes & Community Renewal (free, at hcr.ny.gov).

What the city thinks it's worth

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

Building systems

Restaurants in this building

Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint

1 restaurant · 0 with mice evidence · See them on the Mice Map

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

685 5 Avenue Copy address

35 311 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

Ten-year activity

Show as table

Year	Construction	Enforcement	Housing & tenants	Ownership & money	Health & systems	Total
2017	45	15	0	8	14	82
2018	19	3	21	28	4	75
2019	27	22	14	1	4	68
2020	28	13	20	7	31	99
2021	25	23	10	6	2	66
2022	30	25	4	14	6	79
2023	27	16	8	229	7	287
2024	21	6	18	519	1	565
2025	18	6	11	84	2	121
2026	4	0	5	17	1	27

The last 12 months — 33 records

The full timeline

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