171 East 71st Street, Manhattan

An Upper East Side townhouse with stable ownership and a busy curb outside.

This brick house on East 71st Street has spent years staying out of the operational records. But while the building itself has a thin paper trail, the surrounding blocks carry a heavy volume of street-level traffic. Three things to know:

A $1.75M purchase in 2022, followed by a move into a family trust in 2025. The townhouse sold for $1,757,500 in April 2022, ending decades of the same family ownership. By March 2025, it was transferred to a family trust. In a small townhouse, trust ownership usually means stable, long-term holding.

Nearby food establishments draw frequent complaints. There were 17 complaints about neighboring food establishments on the surrounding blocks in the last year, running up to July 12, 2026. On a residential block, restaurant kitchen odors and exhaust vents can bleed right into townhouse windows if the unit faces the wrong way.

378 illegal parking complaints within three blocks last year. The street outside takes a heavy beating. Of those parking complaints, 108 were for blocked hydrants and 125 were for sign violations, suggesting heavy commercial deliveries and double-parking rather than long-term stored cars.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 51 missed trash collections within three blocks last year, pointing to occasional municipal pickup delays.
• 15 encampment complaints on the surrounding blocks last year, though the last report was on March 21, 2026.
• A single leaking hydrant complaint in March 2025 is the only building-level complaint in years.
• An 1860s townhouse that keeps a clean operational profile, staying out of the code-enforcement records while the surrounding blocks stay busy. The primary things to verify are local restaurant exhaust pathways in the backyard and the typical street-level delivery traffic out front.

171 East 71st Street is a two-family home in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1014060128). This building is associated with Paradis Daisy. 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 1867, 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 March 14, 2025, according to recorded deeds.

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

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