Street record · Manhattan

East 55 Street

26 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Midtown-Times Square, East Midtown-Turtle Bay. 5 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records26
Active-status records21
Latest status changeSep 18, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 55 Street

City Planning maps 51 tax lots on East 55 Street in Manhattan, 29% of them mixed residential and commercial. The oldest went up in 1881 and the newest in 2021. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1940s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
51
Buildings
53
Homes
1,298
Typically built
1940s
Typical height
6–46 floors
Built area
2,849,338 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Mixed residential and commercial15 of 51
  • Commercial and office14 of 51
  • Elevator apartments7 of 51

Zoning: C5-2, R8B, C5-2.5 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 55 Street.

Of the 11 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 3 carry at least one — 27% — and 2 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
127
Immediately hazardous
5
Addresses checked
11

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 20, 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

49 homes on East 55 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 Sep 21, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.