Street record · Manhattan

Madison Avenue

540 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Midtown-Times Square, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square. 78 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records540
Active-status records438
Latest status changeOct 1, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of Madison Avenue

City Planning maps 475 tax lots on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, 37% of them mixed residential and commercial. The oldest went up in 1853 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
475
Buildings
513
Homes
9,215
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
5–51 floors
Built area
48,711,163 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Mixed residential and commercial178 of 475
  • Commercial and office142 of 475
  • Elevator apartments50 of 475

Zoning: C5-1, R7-2, C5-3 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 Madison Avenue.

Of the 86 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 12 carry at least one — 14% — and 7 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
175
Immediately hazardous
38
Addresses checked
86

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

133 homes on Madison Avenue 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.