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205 East 42 Street · Manhattan · BBL 1013167501 · 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.

Patterns

1 heat or hot-water complaints in the last three years (winter 2025–26: 1).

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

What 311 hears from this address

70 service requests in the last three years. Most common: Noise (29) · Homeless Person Assistance (9) · Illegal Parking (7) · Encampment (4) · Street Condition (3) · Food Establishment (3).

Filed construction activity

$16,480,433 in permitted construction work filed since 2016 (78 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.

What the city thinks it's worth

The city's market estimate has fallen 13% between tax years 2025 and 2027.

Tax exemptions on the roll: BD HIGHER ED (CUNY)

Building systems

Restaurants in this building

Report to 311: Food poisoning · Food safety complaint

4 restaurants · 1 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
3 Food Establishment complaints to 311 at this address in the last three years (most often: Bare Hands in Contact w/ Food, Rodents/Insects/Garbage, Sodium Warning), shared by 4 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

205 East 42 Street Copy address

70 311 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

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Year	Construction	Enforcement	Housing & tenants	Ownership & money	Health & systems	Total
2017	7	3	5	118	15	148
2018	29	0	5	1	7	42
2019	14	16	6	1	4	41
2020	8	4	8	0	2	22
2021	21	1	4	138	2	166
2022	11	3	6	19	4	43
2023	47	1	7	4	2	61
2024	23	0	8	0	5	36
2025	15	2	27	799	6	849
2026	16	2	33	32	3	86

The last 12 months — 628 records

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