A small five-unit layout where external flight paths and block-level air quality reads outweigh building-scoped issues.
This five-unit pre-war building sits on West 70th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue. While the building's own record shows only a single-day leak event in June 2025 and a winter heat call, the surrounding blocks carry notable environmental and street-level patterns. Three things to know:
Air quality and kitchen exhaust calls cluster on the surrounding blocks. Over the past 12 months, the three blocks around the building accumulated 19 indoor air quality calls, 13 food establishment complaints, and 10 industrial waste calls. Commercial exhaust and kitchen venting on the surrounding blockfaces mean air quality and kitchen fumes can drift into nearby residential risers.
Helicopter flyovers generate consistent ambient noise in the area. 413 helicopter-noise calls were logged within three blocks in the last year, reflecting high-altitude transit lines across Upper West Side corridors. It is an ambient pattern across the neighborhood rather than a building defect, but it impacts upper-floor units with direct line-of-sight exposure.
Encampment reports remain dense along neighboring commercial avenues. 354 encampment reports were logged within three blocks over the past year. This street-level activity concentrates primarily along main avenues and commercial hubs nearby, leaving the smaller residential side streets relatively isolated from long-term staging.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
221 West 70th Street is a 5-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1011620122). This building is associated with S And S Realty Co. Brix tracks 6 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1894, 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 10 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 June 10, 2025.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on February 5, 2018 for $4,800,000, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 26/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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