Alteration filingOct 22
DOB filing M01181604-I1
Alteration filing at 170 East 78 Street
Approved$18,000 recorded cost
Open filing Building record · BIN 1077853
170 East 78 Street
170 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075
A consolidated, filing-by-filing view of DOB records matched to this building identifier. The current snapshot links 3 independently sourced records, including 1 that are not recorded as completed, closed or withdrawn.
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BUILDING RECORD · BIN 1077853
170 East 78 Street
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan
A consolidated public-record view · updated Oct 22, 2026
- DOB filings
- 3
- Active-status
- 1
- Recorded addresses
- 1
A building-level summary of matched filings, active-status records and published identifiers.
Matched filings3
Open or active-status records1
First included filingMar 13, 2025
Latest recorded changeOct 22, 2026
The lot
What is already here?
The lot holds a 9-story condominium built in 1927, with 34 homes, on a 8,173 sq ft lot.
- Floors 2–9Homes34 homes are recorded on this lot — about 4 homes to a floor, and the apartments assessed on this block run to a typical 1,681 sq ft (156 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
- Homes34 recorded · typically 156 m² · valued $512,126
- Above the southern skylineFrom about floor 35 — the tallest thing within 60 m to the south is 102.7 m
- Built
- 1927
- Floors
- 9
- Residential units
- 34
- Building type
- Condominium
- Land use
- Mixed residential and commercial
- Zoning district
- R8B
- Lot area
- 8,173 sq ft
- Building area
- 56,487 sq ft
Housing violations
1 violation is open against this address under the Housing Maintenance Code.
- 0Immediately hazardous
- 0Hazardous
- 1Non-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
304 condominium apartments are assessed on this block, and the typical one is 1,681 sq ft (156 m²). They run from 38 to 677 m².
The city values the typical one at $512,126. That is the Department of Finance’s market valuation for tax, not an asking price and not a sale.
What it sold for
17 apartments on this tax block changed hands in the year the city last published, at a median of $2,850,000, from 35,000 to 16,700,000.
Recorded sale prices from the Department of Finance’s rolling file, covering the year to Sep 30, 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
LENOX HILL HOSPITAL
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 Oct 24, 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 3 open notices on record for this building, out of 32 notices on file; the most recent was issued Aug 1, 2024.
- Failure to correct swarmp conditions (facade)
Issued Aug 1, 2024 — FAILURE TO CORRECT SWARMP CONDITIONS
- No report and / or late filing (facade)
Issued Feb 22, 2024 — FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 9C TECHNICAL REPORT BY 2/21/2024
- Hazardous condition (facade)
Issued Feb 20, 2024 — CYCLE 9C UNSAFE REPORT FILED
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 Oct 24, 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 1077853. They should not be read as a single construction project unless the underlying filings say so.
The matched set includes 3 alteration filing. Its latest status categories are 1 approved, 2 recorded as completed. Each filing page preserves its own status, dates, scope and source identifier.
- First included filing
- Mar 13, 2025
- Latest recorded change
- Oct 22, 2026
- Highest proposed story count
- 10 stories
- Highest proposed unit count
- 31 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 3 matched filings, in the order it was recorded. A date marks what entered the public record, not what happened on site.
- Alteration filed01
IN Conjunction with interior renovation of existing apartment 5EF on the 5th floor. Mechanical work only. Filing M01181604-I1.
- Alteration filed02
In Conjunction with interior renovation of existing apartment on 5th floor. Plumbing work only. Filing M01179722-I1.
- Alteration filed03
Interior renovation with minor exterior work of existing apartment 5E/F on the 5th floor, architectural/ construction only. Filing M01179718-I1.
- Alteration approved04
Filing M01181604-I1 reached an approved status.
- Alteration approved05
Filing M01179722-I1 reached an approved status.
- Alteration approved06
Filing M01179718-I1 reached an approved status.
- Permit recorded for alteration07
DOB lists a first permit date for M01179718-I1. That is not by itself confirmation of activity on site.
- Permit recorded for alteration08
DOB lists a first permit date for M01181604-I1. That is not by itself confirmation of activity on site.
- Permit recorded for alteration09
DOB lists a first permit date for M01179722-I1. That is not by itself confirmation of activity on site.
- Alteration signed off010
DOB recorded a sign-off for M01179722-I1.
- Alteration now completed011
The latest status recorded for M01179722-I1 is “LOC Issued.”
- Alteration signed off012
DOB recorded a sign-off for M01179718-I1.
- Alteration now completed013
The latest status recorded for M01179718-I1 is “LOC Issued.”
- Alteration now approved014
The latest status recorded for M01181604-I1 is “Permit Entire.”