Street record · Manhattan

West 189 Street

3 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Washington Heights (North).

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Qualified records3
Active-status records1
Latest status changeSep 9, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 189 Street

City Planning maps 12 tax lots on West 189 Street in Manhattan, 75% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1915 and the newest in 1925. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
12
Buildings
12
Homes
424
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
5–6 floors
Built area
361,191 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments9 of 12
  • Mixed residential and commercial3 of 12

Zoning: R7-2 across every mapped lot. 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 189 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
103
Immediately hazardous
40
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 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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Source snapshot accessed Oct 7, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.