Street record · Manhattan

West 165 Street

13 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Washington Heights (South). 3 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records13
Active-status records12
Latest status changeSep 29, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 165 Street

City Planning maps 21 tax lots on West 165 Street in Manhattan, 38% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1898 and the newest in 1935. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
21
Buildings
17
Homes
252
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
3–5 floors
Built area
231,532 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments8 of 21
  • Parking facilities6 of 21
  • Mixed residential and commercial3 of 21

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 165 Street.

Of the 5 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 2 carry at least one — 40% — and 2 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
51
Immediately hazardous
16
Addresses checked
5

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 2, 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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Source snapshot accessed Oct 2, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.