119 East 71st Street, Manhattan

An 1866 brownstone that changed hands for $12 million in 2023, carrying an inactive record on a busy Upper East Side stretch.

Built in 1866, this single-family townhouse has a history of corporate holdings, shifting to its current ownership entity on March 14, 2023. Because it functions as a single home, it escapes the heavy operational paperwork of multi-family buildings. Two things to know:

A $12 million transfer to an LLC in 2023. The property sold for $12 million on March 14, 2023, to a single-property entity. Before that, it was held by a separate corporation for nearly two decades after a $7.1 million purchase in 2004. In single-family townhouses of this vintage, these high-value corporate trades point to a major private hold or a corporate-level asset lease.

Broken sidewalk reports are the only real trace on the house itself. The building carries zero open violations, but residents did file four complaints about cracked or broken concrete out front between August 2024 and May 2025. These are all marked as resolved, which is normal for an upscale block where local street-level hazards are repaired quickly.

High-volume parking congestion on the surrounding blocks. We see 286 illegal-parking calls within three blocks of the house over the last year. These are mostly posted sign violations and blocked hydrants—117 and 49 calls respectively—meaning short-term delivery and double-parking friction, not long-term stored cars.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Within three blocks, neighbors filed 20 homeless-assistance requests and five encampment complaints over the last year.
• There were 34 lost property reports on the surrounding blocks last year, mostly involving lost wallets and bags.
• Six indoor air quality complaints were logged nearby over the last year, with the last seen on April 4, 2026.
• An 1866 townhouse with an inactive municipal record and a major $12 million transfer in its recent history. The home carries zero open code violations, which means there is no local operational friction on file. The main thing to weigh is the parking and double-parking congestion on the surrounding blocks, not the building's own file.

119 East 71st Street is a single-family home in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1014060009). This building is associated with 119 East 71st Street Townhouse LLC. Brix does not yet have a current violation read for this property (not enough recent data), along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1866, this single-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 March 14, 2023 for $12,000,000, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 95/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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