Street record · Manhattan

East 87 Street

41 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Upper East Side-Yorkville, Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill. 4 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records41
Active-status records32
Latest status changeOct 1, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 87 Street

City Planning maps 129 tax lots on East 87 Street in Manhattan, 32% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1880 and the newest in 2018. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
129
Buildings
130
Homes
2,637
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
5–38 floors
Built area
3,227,532 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes41 of 129
  • Walk-up apartments40 of 129
  • Elevator apartments18 of 129

Zoning: R8B, R10, C1-7 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 87 Street.

Of the 13 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 8 carry at least one — 62% — and 4 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
62
Immediately hazardous
6
Addresses checked
13

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

74 homes on East 87 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.