725 East 161st 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
- Fewer open HPD violations than ~69% of buildings in this ZIP (6 open)
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~15)
- Built in 1960 (city records)
About this building
City records list 1960 as the year built — newer than 84% of the 754 buildings we cover in ZIP 10456. The building’s floor space is 3.2 times the size of its lot: 750,000 sq ft of building on a 231,000 sq ft lot. 619 apartments — more than 99% of the 753 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 10456 have.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 21, 2026.
725 East 161st 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.
725 East 161 Street sits in Bronx, ZIP 10456. The closest subway is Prospect Av (2,5) (5-minute walk), served by the 2 and 5 lines.
Building Condition
Issued September 2007. 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.
- 1990-01-22
- 1990-01-22
- 1990-01-22
- 1990-01-22
- 1984-07-27
- Class B · 6 open · penalty 30 · (5/ea)
- 2023-02-22 "FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 9B TECHNICAL REPORT BY 2/21/2023"
- 2019-12-06
- 2018-07-31 "FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 8B TECHNICAL REPORT BY 02/21/2018"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 1960. 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: 135
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 67
- PETIT LARCENY: 66
- FELONY ASSAULT: 47
- VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAWS: 43
- Illegal Parking: 102
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 92
- Noise - Residential: 85
- Elevator: 41
- Blocked Driveway: 27
- 772 EAST 161 STREET
- 724 E 160TH ST
- 782 E 163RD ST
- P.S. X140 The Eagle School
- P.S. 146 Edward Collins
- P.S. X017
- P.S. X017
- I S 184 Rafael C Y Molina
- South Bronx Academy for Applied Media
- New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math
- P.S. X017
- Bronx Lighthouse Charter School
- Prospect Av
- Jackson Av
- Intervale Av
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School
- P.s. 157 Grove Hill
- Captain Rivera Playground
- P.s. X017
- P.s. 146 Edward Collins
- Charlton-Thompson Garden
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Optimum Cable Fiber Up to 8,000 Mbps down · 8,000 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 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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