Alteration filingSep 18
DOB filing M01442322-I1
Alteration filing at 279 St Nicholas Avenue
Approved6 proposed stories
Open filing Building record · BIN 1059297
279 St Nicholas Avenue
279 St Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10027
A consolidated, filing-by-filing view of DOB records matched to this building identifier. The current snapshot links 2 independently sourced records, including 2 that are not recorded as completed, closed or withdrawn.
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BUILDING RECORD · BIN 1059297
279 St Nicholas Avenue
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
A consolidated public-record view · updated Sep 18, 2026
- DOB filings
- 2
- Active-status
- 2
- Recorded addresses
- 1
A building-level summary of matched filings, active-status records and published identifiers.
Matched filings2
Open or active-status records2
First included filingAug 12, 2026
Latest recorded changeSep 18, 2026
The lot
What is already here?
The lot holds a 6-story elevator apartment building built in 1921, with 32 homes, on a 11,100 sq ft lot.
- Floors 2–6Homes32 homes are recorded on this lot — about 6 homes to a floor, and the apartments assessed on this block run to a typical 798 sq ft (74 m²). The city does not publish which floor any of them is on.
- Floor 1Street levelStreet level. The lot is recorded as mixed residential and commercial, so this floor is where the commercial space is.
- Street levelMixed residential and commercial
- Homes32 recorded · typically 74 m² · valued $262,446
- Above the southern skylineFrom about floor 17 — the tallest thing within 60 m to the south is 50 m
- Built
- 1921
- Floors
- 6
- Residential units
- 32
- Building type
- Elevator apartment building
- Land use
- Mixed residential and commercial
- Zoning district
- C4-4D
- Lot area
- 11,100 sq ft
- Building area
- 50,706 sq ft
Housing violations
67 violations are open against this address under the Housing Maintenance Code. 29 of them are the class the city calls immediately hazardous.
- 29Immediately hazardous
- 36Hazardous
- 2Non-hazardous
- 0Information order
Open means the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has not recorded it as corrected, which is not the same as nobody having fixed it. The city publishes the apartment each was written against; that is not carried here, because a count says a building has a problem and an apartment number says whose.
The apartments
142 condominium apartments are assessed on this block, and the typical one is 798 sq ft (74 m²). They run from 42 to 192 m².
The city values the typical one at $262,446. That is the Department of Finance’s market valuation for tax, not an asking price and not a sale.
What it sold for
4 apartments on this tax block changed hands in the year the city last published, at a median of $1,450,000, from 1,150,000 to 1,700,000.
Recorded sale prices from the Department of Finance’s rolling file, covering the year to Aug 31, 2026. Transfers under $10,000 are left out: New York records deed transfers between relatives at a dollar, and those are not sales. No apartment number and no name is carried from either side.
Owner of record
117 MORNINGSIDE AVE CORP
As the assessment roll records it. Only owners that read as a company are shown here; where the roll names an individual, nothing is published.
Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 20, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not any single filing. When the rest of New York went up
Violation record
Are there open violations here?
The Department of Buildings has 1 open notice on record for this building, out of 41 notices on file; the most recent was issued Apr 30, 2019.
- No report and / or late filing (facade)
Issued Apr 30, 2019 — FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 8C TECHNICAL REPORT BY 02/21/2019
Open means the agency has not recorded a resolution, which is not the same as the problem still existing. What a violation is, and what it is not. From NYC Department of Buildings, DOB Violations (3h2n-5cm9), accessed Sep 20, 2026.
What is recorded here
Multiple filings, one stable building identifier.
New York City's Building Identification Number helps connect filings that may use different application numbers or describe different scopes of work. The records below are grouped because they publish BIN 1059297. They should not be read as a single construction project unless the underlying filings say so.
The matched set includes 2 alteration filing. Its latest status categories are 2 approved. Each filing page preserves its own status, dates, scope and source identifier.
- First included filing
- Aug 12, 2026
- Latest recorded change
- Sep 18, 2026
- Highest proposed story count
- 6 stories
- Highest proposed unit count
- 33 dwelling units
Highest recorded values may come from different filings and must not be combined into one proposed project. Open the individual filings below for their exact scope. Values outside the publication's conservative data-quality bounds are withheld pending source review.
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Recorded history
What has happened at this address?
Every dated event the city has published for this building, from all 2 matched filings, in the order it was recorded. A date marks what entered the public record, not what happened on site.
- Alteration filed01
Interior renovation of existing commercial space to install new customer lounge area, etc. No change of use, egress, and occupancy. Filing M01442322-I1.
- Alteration approved02
Filing M01442322-I1 reached an approved status.
- Alteration filed03
Interior renovation of existing commercial space to Install two new hand sink, two double basin lavatory and water closet, etc. Filing M01442322-S1.
- Alteration approved04
Filing M01442322-S1 reached an approved status.
- Permit recorded for alteration05
DOB lists a first permit date for M01442322-S1. That is not by itself confirmation of activity on site.
- Alteration now approved06
The latest status recorded for M01442322-S1 is “Permit Entire.”
- Permit recorded for alteration07
DOB lists a first permit date for M01442322-I1. That is not by itself confirmation of activity on site.
- Alteration now approved08
The latest status recorded for M01442322-I1 is “Permit Entire.”