Street record · Manhattan

York Avenue

34 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Upper East Side-Yorkville, Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island. 2 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records34
Active-status records30
Latest status changeSep 28, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of York Avenue

City Planning maps 131 tax lots on York Avenue in Manhattan, 66% of them mixed residential and commercial. The oldest went up in 1880 and the newest in 2023. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
131
Buildings
149
Homes
7,989
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
5–37 floors
Built area
12,832,845 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Mixed residential and commercial87 of 131
  • Elevator apartments20 of 131
  • Public facilities and institutions13 of 131

Zoning: R10, R10A, 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 York Avenue.

Of the 8 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 3 carry at least one — 38% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
32
Immediately hazardous
2
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 29, 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

23 homes on York Avenue 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 Oct 3, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.