397 Washington Street
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 ~60% of buildings in this ZIP (2 open)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1896) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
About this building
Standing since 1896 inside the Tribeca North Historic District. The building’s floor space is 9.8 times the size of its lot: 21,800 sq ft of building on a 2,215 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 8, 2026.
397 Washington Street
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- City records show 2 open HPD violations 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 2008 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- We found no DHCR rent-stabilization unit count for this building. That is not the same as the building being market-rate — a registration can be on file with no unit figure, or not have been filed at all. Ask the landlord directly whether the unit is rent-stabilized, and request your own rent history from DHCR.
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Fire escape defective. adjust the dropladder so that it will slide easily in the guide rods….
397 Washington Street sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10013. The closest subway is Canal St (1) (5-minute walk), served by the 1 line.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: September 2008 · Most recent: April 2026. 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.
- 2026-04-29
- 2008-09-30
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 1 open · penalty 1 · (1/ea)
- 2019-09-19 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
- 2014-05-30 "VIO ISSUED TO ELEVATOR - FAIL TO CORRECT DEFECTS ON 2012 CAT 1 INSP/TST"
- 2004-04-21
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 1896. 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: 178
- GRAND LARCENY: 38
- HARRASSMENT 2: 17
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 10
- VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAWS: 9
- Illegal Parking: 90
- Street Condition: 22
- Noise: 21
- Traffic Signal Condition: 20
- Missed Collection: 17
- 415 GREENWICH STREET
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- P.S. 150
- P.S. 234 Independence School
- P.S. 89
- I.S. 289
- Stuyvesant High School
- Broome Street Academy Charter School
- NYC iSchool
- Canal St
- Franklin St
- Canal St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Mary Miss / City As Living Laboratory
- Writers Guild Of America, East Foundation
- Armitage Foundation, Ltd.
- Triangle Arts Association
- Friends Of The New York City Fire Department Collection, Inc.
- Borough Manhattan Comm College
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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