545 West 126th Street
Top insights
- More open HPD violations than ~61% of buildings in this ZIP (13 open)
- 6 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (30 vs ~5)
- Built in 1959 (city records)
About this building
City records list 1959 as the year built — newer than 89% of the 1,385 buildings we cover in ZIP 10027. The building’s floor space is 2.5 times the size of its lot: 1,291,359 sq ft of building on a 522,765 sq ft lot. 1,272 apartments — more than 99% of the 1,383 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 10027 have.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 14, 2026.
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
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(311 complaints)
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545 West 126th 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.
545 West 126 Street sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10027. The closest subway is 125 St (1) (2-minute walk), served by the 1, A, B, C, and D lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: September 2025 · Most recent: September 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.
- 2026-09-23 "§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSI…"
- 2026-09-23 "§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSI…"
- 2026-09-21 "§ 27-2013 ADM CODE PAINT WITH LIGHT COLORED PAINT TO THE SATISFACTION OF THIS DEPARTMENT ALL PEELING PAINT SURFACES IN T…"
- 2026-09-09 "§ 27-2013 ADM CODE PAINT WITH LIGHT COLORED PAINT TO THE SATISFACTION OF THIS DEPARTMENT EAST WALL AND WEST WALL IN THE…"
- 2026-09-09 "§ 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 HMC, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( C) MDL AND 28 RCNY §25-171: REPLACE OR REPAIR THE SELF-CLOSI…"
- Class C · 6 open · penalty 90 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 3 open · penalty 15 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 4 open · penalty 4 · (1/ea)
- 2026-04-26 · Apt 3F · EMERGENCY · PLUMBING
- 2026-04-26 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2026-04-25 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2025-08-05
- 2024-12-06
- 2024-02-27
- 2023-09-05
- Feb 22, 2022 "FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 9A TECHNICAL REPORT BY 02/21/2022"
- Jul 12, 2019
- May 31, 2018 "FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 8A TECHNICAL REPORT BY 02/21/2017"
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 1959. 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
- HARRASSMENT 2: 42
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 31
- PETIT LARCENY: 25
- GRAND LARCENY: 17
- SEX CRIMES: 16
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 144
- Illegal Parking: 140
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 80
- PLUMBING: 43
- Dirty Condition: 36
- 3260 BROADWAY
- 3260 BROADWAY
- 3270 BROADWAY
- Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 6
- KIPP Infinity Charter School
- P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos
- Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders
- The Urban Assembly Institute for New Technologies
- Powell M.S. for Law & Social Justice
- Academy for Social Action
- Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts
- KIPP Infinity Charter School
- 125 St
- 137 St-City College
- 125 St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- P.s. 129 John H. Finley
- Innovative Charitable Initiative, Inc.
- Sheltering Arms Playground
- Manhattanville Bus Depot
- Kipp Infinity Charter School
- Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School
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 · 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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