The building keeps out of enforcement filings while the surrounding blocks carry heavy commercial activity and food-service venting calls.
This 20-unit Lafayette Street rental carries zero open code violations, while the surrounding blocks stay active with nightlife and commercial traffic. Three things to know:
Commercial food venting and indoor air quality calls concentrate on the block. 22 food establishment calls and 11 indoor air quality reports were filed within three blocks over the last year. Ground-floor restaurant venting and commercial exhausts in this area can push fumes into lower-floor units along shared air shafts.
Late-night street noise concentrates along the surrounding blockface. 224 residential noise calls and 142 street-noise complaints were logged within three blocks over the trailing 12 months. Most street calls stem from late-night party crowds and sidewalk speakers along the commercial strip.
Commercial delivery double-parking dominates the street frontage. 260 illegal parking calls were logged within three blocks over the last year. 123 were for posted parking sign violations and 27 for double-parked vehicles blocking traffic—commercial delivery friction rather than stored cars.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
178 Lafayette Street is a 20-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1004730044). This building is associated with 178 Lafayette Street LLC. Brix tracks 0 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1906, this walk-up apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 2 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed November 5, 2025.
The building last changed hands on July 10, 2009, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 96/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 8 at 178 Lafayette Street has no open violations (5 past violations).
Unit 2 at 178 Lafayette Street has no open violations (4 past violations).
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