1240 Amsterdam Avenue
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through June 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- More open HPD violations than ~73% of buildings in this ZIP (21 open)
- 1 open hazardous (Class C) violation
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1926) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 39 units registered
About this building
City records list 1926 as the year built — newer than 82% of the 1,388 buildings we cover in ZIP 10027. The building’s floor space is 4.5 times the size of its lot: 45,210 sq ft of building on a 10,092 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 7, 2026.
A difference between the DHCR rent-stabilized count and the PLUTO total is common and does not, on its own, indicate a violation: units can leave rent stabilization legally, the two datasets count units differently, some units may be non-residential, and a registration can be filed incompletely. To check your own apartment, see how to request your rent history from DHCR.
1240 Amsterdam Avenue
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- City records show 21 open HPD violations, 1 immediately hazardous (Class C) at this building. Ask which are still unresolved in the unit and the landlord’s timeline to clear them.
- The oldest open violation on record dates to 1989 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 39 rent-stabilized units here. Ask whether this specific unit is one of them, and ask the landlord for its legal regulated rent and lease history.
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Repair or replace the smoke detector missing.
- Confirm in person that the immediately-hazardous (Class C) conditions — typically heat, hot water, leaks, mold or pests — are genuinely fixed, not just marked closed.
1240 Amsterdam Avenue sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10027. The closest subway is 116 St-Columbia University (1) (7-minute walk), served by the 1 line.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: February 1989 · Most recent: August 2022. HPD marks a violation open until it is certified as corrected, so an old date can mean an unresolved condition or a repair that was never certified.
- 2022-08-08
- 2022-08-08
- 2022-08-08
- 2022-08-08
- 2022-08-08
- Class C · 1 open · penalty 15 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 17 open · penalty 85 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 3 open · penalty 3 · (1/ea)
- 2024-05-03 "FAILURE TO FILE BENCHMARKING REPORT OF ENERGY USE AS PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-309.4"
- 2023-10-04 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
- 2022-11-21
No HPD lead-paint violations are on record for this building. That means no complaint or inspection was filed — not that the building is lead-free.
Built 1926. Under NYC Local Law 1 (Admin Code §27-2056.5), lead paint is presumed present in common areas and in apartments where a child under 6 resides, in multiple dwellings built before 1960. The presumption stands unless the owner obtained a lead-free or lead-safe exemption from HPD. Those exemption records aren’t published as open data, so we can’t confirm one either way.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- PETIT LARCENY: 44
- HARRASSMENT 2: 42
- GRAND LARCENY: 33
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 20
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 19
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 98
- Traffic Signal Condition: 57
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 54
- Noise - Residential: 35
- DOOR/WINDOW: 31
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- Columbia University
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