481 Fort Washington 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
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1936) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 47 of 62 units
About this building
City records list 1936 as the year built — newer than 88% of the 532 buildings we cover in ZIP 10033. The building’s floor space is 4.3 times the size of its lot: 56,706 sq ft of building on a 13,275 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 9, 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.
481 Fort Washington Avenue
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- City records show 9 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 1989 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 47 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.
- City Buildings Department records show an open life-safety condition (e.g. unsafe building / hazardous facade) — what is it, and has it actually been resolved, not just re-filed?
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective marble saddle.
481 Fort Washington Avenue sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10033. The closest subway is 181 St (A) (1-minute walk), served by the A line.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: November 1989 · Most recent: July 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.
- 2026-07-15
- 2026-07-15
- 2026-07-15
- 2026-07-15
- 2026-07-15
- Class B · 7 open · penalty 35 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 2 open · penalty 2 · (1/ea)
- 2026-07-04 · Apt 1 · NON EMERGENCY · UNSANITARY CONDITION
- 2026-07-04 · Apt 1 · NON EMERGENCY · PLUMBING
- 2026-07-04 · Apt 1 · NON EMERGENCY · PAINT/PLASTER
- 2026-02-19
- 2025-10-24
- 2020-11-30 "CYCLE 7A UNSAFE REPORT FILED"
- 2020-11-30 "CYCLE 9A UNSAFE REPORT FILED"
- 2020-11-30 "CYCLE 8A UNSAFE REPORT FILED"
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 1936. 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: 134
- SEX CRIMES: 69
- HARRASSMENT 2: 63
- GRAND LARCENY: 59
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 46
- Illegal Parking: 594
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 499
- Noise - Residential: 343
- Animal in a Park: 129
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 91
- 804 WEST 181 STREET
- 802 W 181ST ST
- 815 WEST 181 STREET
- Dos Puentes Elementary School
- P.S. 132 Juan Pablo Duarte
- P.S. 048 P.O. Michael J. Buczek
- I.S. 528 Bea Fuller Rodgers School
- School in the Square Public Charter School
- P.S./I.S. 187 Hudson Cliffs
- Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School
- 181 St
- 181 St
- 175 St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Fort Washington Park
- Russian Musical Arts Society Of America, Inc.
- Anthropologists, Inc.
- Project Y Theatre, Inc.
- Reaching For The Arts, Inc.
- P.s. 048 P.o. Michael J. Buczek
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 Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 35 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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