Street record · Manhattan

West 96 Street

10 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Upper West Side (Central).

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Qualified records10
Active-status records4
Latest status changeSep 15, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 96 Street

City Planning maps 49 tax lots on West 96 Street in Manhattan, 35% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1892 and the newest in 2022. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
49
Buildings
51
Homes
2,421
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
6–35 floors
Built area
2,760,273 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments17 of 49
  • Elevator apartments15 of 49
  • Mixed residential and commercial14 of 49

Zoning: R9, R8, C1-9 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 96 Street.

Of the 3 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 3 carry at least one — 100% — and 3 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
293
Immediately hazardous
59
Addresses checked
3

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 18, 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

48 homes on West 96 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.