273 West 131st Street
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through March 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- 2 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (14 vs ~5)
- Built in 1972 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 36 units registered
About this building
City records list 1972 as the year built — newer than 89% of the 1,386 buildings we cover in ZIP 10027, and the newest of the 50 buildings we cover on this block. At 8 floors, the tallest on this block. 44 apartments — the most of any building we cover on this block, and more than 91% of the 1,384 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 10027 have fewer. The building’s floor space is 4.9 times the size of its lot: 59,880 sq ft of building on a 12,218 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 3, 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.
273 West 131st Street
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- City records show 11 open HPD violations, 2 immediately hazardous (Class C) under 2450 Frederick Douglass Boulevard — the address HPD files this building’s records under, not the address on this page. Ask which are still unresolved in the unit and the landlord’s timeline to clear them.
- The oldest open violation on record dates to 2015 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 36 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: Abate the infestation consisting of mice in the entire apartment.
- 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.
273 West 131st Street sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10027. The closest subway is 135 St (C,B) (5-minute walk), served by the B and C lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: October 2015 · Most recent: September 2023. 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.
- 2023-09-02
- 2023-05-12
- 2021-08-31
- 2019-11-16
- 2019-11-16
- 2019-11-16
- 2019-11-16
- Class C · 2 open · penalty 30 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 8 open · penalty 40 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 1 open · penalty 1 · (1/ea)
- 2026-06-19 · Apt 7G · EMERGENCY · UNSANITARY CONDITION
- 2026-06-19 · Apt 7G · NON EMERGENCY · PAINT/PLASTER
- 2026-06-19 · Apt 7G · EMERGENCY · WATER LEAK
- 2023-10-04
- 2023-10-04
- 2023-06-20 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2018 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 1972. For buildings built between 1960 and 1978, Local Law 1 applies where the owner knows lead-based paint is present — there is no automatic pre-1960 presumption. Lead paint in residential use was federally banned in 1978.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 185
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 112
- PETIT LARCENY: 93
- FELONY ASSAULT: 48
- GRAND LARCENY: 48
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 220
- Noise - Residential: 120
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 88
- PLUMBING: 70
- DOOR/WINDOW: 41
- 2480 F DOUGLASS BLVD
- 2410 F DOUGLASS BLVD
- 2407 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BLVD
- P.S. 092 Mary McLeod Bethune
- Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy 1 Charter S
- P.S. 129 John H. Finley
- Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy 1 Charter S
- P.S. 129 John H. Finley
- Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem
- Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy 1 Charter S
- Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem
- Mott Hall High School
- 135 St
- 125 St
- 135 St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Langston Hughes Playground
- St. Nicholas Miracle Garden
- P.s. 129 John H. Finley
- Off Street Parking For 32 Precinct
- William B. Washington Memorial Garden
- P.s. 154 Harriet Tubman
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Spectrum Cable Fiber Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 980 Mbps down · 880 Mbps up
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Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection (NY, rev. May 2026). Wired broadband only — cable + fiber. DSL, satellite, and fixed-wireless not included. Block-level data; actual availability may vary by building.
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