Street record · Manhattan

West 161 Street

2 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Washington Heights (South). 1 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Latest status changeSep 15, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 161 Street

City Planning maps 41 tax lots on West 161 Street in Manhattan, 51% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1897 and the newest in 2017. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
41
Buildings
39
Homes
658
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
4–10 floors
Built area
658,094 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments21 of 41
  • Elevator apartments8 of 41
  • One and two family homes6 of 41

Zoning: 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 161 Street.

Of the 1 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 100% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
29
Immediately hazardous
5
Addresses checked
1

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 17, 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

One home on West 161 Street is 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 17, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.