Street record · Manhattan

East 72 Street

106 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill. 9 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records106
Active-status records84
Latest status changeOct 1, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 72 Street

City Planning maps 100 tax lots on East 72 Street in Manhattan, 30% of them elevator apartments. The oldest went up in 1882 and the newest in 2025. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
100
Buildings
104
Homes
4,516
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
5–44 floors
Built area
5,677,779 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Elevator apartments30 of 100
  • One and two family homes23 of 100
  • Mixed residential and commercial21 of 100

Zoning: R10A, R10, C5-1 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 72 Street.

Of the 27 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 15 carry at least one — 56% — and 7 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
199
Immediately hazardous
29
Addresses checked
27

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 3, 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

145 homes on East 72 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 3, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.