11 Commerce Street, Manhattan

    An 1820s West Village townhouse with a thin building file set against a heavy commercial and dining strip.

    A two-unit West Village townhouse built in 1826 that generates almost no agency filings of its own. It traded for $3.3M in 2012 and shifted to single-owner title in 2017, keeping a minimal municipal profile ever since. Three things to know:

    The house itself carries almost no operational paper trail. Two-family townhouses rarely generate tenant friction or municipal filings. With no open housing-code violations and only a single closed sanitation call on file for the address, official records yield very little, shifting all underwriting focus to physical systems and direct landlord oversight.

    Commercial food venting and air quality dominate nearby street complaints. Within three blocks, area calls over the last year include 49 food establishment complaints and 13 indoor air quality reports, alongside 62 outdoor dining calls. Restaurant exhaust, kitchen venting, and sidewalk dining run dense around this pocket of the West Village, making air drift a real move-in consideration.

    Nightlife foot traffic and curb congestion shape the immediate blocks. City calls within three blocks are led by 255 illegal parking issues — mostly posted sign violations and blocked bike lanes — alongside 236 residential noise reports and 155 sidewalk noise complaints. Street activity from nearby bars and restaurants spills continuously onto immediate side blocks.

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    11 Commerce Street is a two-family home in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1005870063). This building is associated with Birchby, Timothy P. Brix tracks 0 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

    Built in 1826, this two-family home sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

    The building last changed hands on May 31, 2017, according to recorded deeds.

    Brix score: 100/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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    Part of Greenwich Village — see violations, complaints, and landlord activity across the whole neighborhood.

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