438 East 120th 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
- 1 open hazardous (Class C) violation
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (11 vs ~5)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1900) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 42 units registered
About this building
42 apartments — the most of any of the 21 buildings we cover on this block, and more than 92% of the 852 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 10035 have fewer. The building’s floor space is 5.9 times the size of its lot: 51,546 sq ft of building on an 8,747 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 10, 2026.
438 East 120th Street
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- This is NYCHA public housing, so HPD’s violation database isn’t the maintenance record — ask the management office for this unit’s open work-order history and average repair time.
438 East 120th Street sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10035. No subway stations are within an 800-meter walk — expect to rely on buses or rideshare.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: August 2024 · 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
- 2024-08-30
- 2026-04-29
- Class C · 1 open · penalty 15 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- 2026-03-18 · Apt ENTIRE · EMERGENCY · UNSANITARY CONDITION
- 2026-02-01 · Apt 1B · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2025-12-27 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2025-09-10
- 2022-09-14 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN ACCEPTABLE INSPECTN RPT FOR STRUCTURALLY COMPROMISED BLDG."
- 2021-09-07
- 2021-09-07
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 1900. 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: 170
- HARRASSMENT 2: 170
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 82
- GRAND LARCENY: 56
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 54
- Noise - Residential: 161
- Illegal Parking: 98
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 91
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 69
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 55
- 375 PLEASANT AVENUE
- 409 EAST 119 STREET
- 2339 1ST AVE
- P.S. 112 Jose Celso Barbosa
- P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa
- River East Elementary
- P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa
- Harlem Village Academy East Charter School
- M.S. 45/S.T.A.R.S. Prep Academy
- Coalition School for Social Change
- Urban Peace Academy
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Park
- National Museum Of Catholic Art And History
- Foundation
- Louis Cuvillier Park/Rfk Ramps
- Touro University - Harlem
- P.s. 155 Playground
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable Fiber Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 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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