Street record · Manhattan

West 142 Street

21 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Harlem (North), Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill. 4 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records21
Active-status records16
Latest status changeSep 18, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 142 Street

City Planning maps 116 tax lots on West 142 Street in Manhattan, 53% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1896 and the newest in 2015. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
116
Buildings
116
Homes
1,378
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
4–16 floors
Built area
1,488,694 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments61 of 116
  • One and two family homes24 of 116
  • Elevator apartments10 of 116

Zoning: R6A, R7-2, R8 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 142 Street.

Of the 8 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 6 carry at least one — 75% — and 6 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
191
Immediately hazardous
64
Addresses checked
8

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 142 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.