Street record · Manhattan

West 126 Street

8 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Harlem (North), Manhattanville-West Harlem. 1 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records8
Active-status records7
Latest status changeSep 18, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 126 Street

City Planning maps 156 tax lots on West 126 Street in Manhattan, 52% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1890 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
156
Buildings
150
Homes
750
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
3–16 floors
Built area
1,928,109 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments81 of 156
  • Public facilities and institutions18 of 156
  • One and two family homes16 of 156

Zoning: R7-2, R6A, R7A 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 West 126 Street.

Of the 3 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 33% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
245
Immediately hazardous
77
Addresses checked
3

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

11 homes on West 126 Street are listed today.

What the brokerages are currently asking along this street. 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.