Street record · Bronx

East 196 Street

3 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Bedford Park. 1 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records3
Active-status records3
Latest status changeSep 18, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 196 Street

City Planning maps 72 tax lots on East 196 Street in Bronx, 46% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2014. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
72
Buildings
94
Homes
902
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
3–6 floors
Built area
1,009,612 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments33 of 72
  • One and two family homes31 of 72
  • Elevator apartments4 of 72

Zoning: R5A, R8, R7B are the districts covering most of the street. A zoning district sets what may be built, not what is there now.

NYC Department of City Planning · Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · 64uk-42ks · read 2026-09-11

Living here

The housing record on East 196 Street.

Of the 2 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 50% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
514
Immediately hazardous
124
Addresses checked
2

The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Sep 22, 2026.

How to read this street page

A shared street name does not mean a shared project.

These records are grouped by the street name and borough published by DOB. Each address remains an independent filing unless its source record explicitly connects it to another site. Use this page to scan activity along the corridor, then open an individual filing for its exact status, scope and identifiers.

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Source snapshot accessed Sep 22, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.