Street record · Manhattan

East 21 Street

32 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Gramercy, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square. 5 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records32
Active-status records29
Latest status changeOct 19, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 21 Street

City Planning maps 52 tax lots on East 21 Street in Manhattan, 33% of them mixed residential and commercial. The oldest went up in 1847 and the newest in 2021. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
52
Buildings
55
Homes
871
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
6–20 floors
Built area
1,127,451 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Mixed residential and commercial17 of 52
  • Walk-up apartments14 of 52
  • Elevator apartments9 of 52

Zoning: R8B, M1-5M, R9A 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 21 Street.

Of the 10 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 3 carry at least one — 30% — and 2 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
40
Immediately hazardous
7
Addresses checked
10

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 Oct 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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On the market

14 homes on East 21 Street are listed today.

What the brokerages are currently asking along this street. These are the first 12. Each one links to the agent’s own page, where the price is live and the photographs are.

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Source snapshot accessed Oct 23, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.