Street record · Manhattan

West 138 Street

6 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Manhattanville-West Harlem, Harlem (North), Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill.

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Qualified records6
Active-status records6
Latest status changeSep 10, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 138 Street

City Planning maps 170 tax lots on West 138 Street in Manhattan, 47% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1891 and the newest in 2011. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
170
Buildings
197
Homes
1,428
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
3–8 floors
Built area
1,560,593 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments80 of 170
  • One and two family homes50 of 170
  • Public facilities and institutions11 of 170

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 138 Street.

Of the 2 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 50% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
66
Immediately hazardous
11
Addresses checked
2

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 21, 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

28 homes on West 138 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 22, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.