123 East 78th Street, Manhattan

An 1870s Upper East Side townhouse where commercial noise and neighborhood food venting shape the surrounding block.

An 1871 single-family home on the Upper East Side. Because it is a private single-family townhouse, it carries almost no direct operational paperwork, leaving surrounding street patterns to provide the main context. Three things to know:

Commercial banging drives surrounding sound calls. Commercial noise logged 154 complaints within three blocks in the last year, dominated by 128 banging and pounding reports. This points to active retail loading, commercial HVAC venting, or morning delivery routines on neighboring avenues.

Commercial food venting and air quality calls show up nearby. Food establishment calls hit 12 complaints and indoor air quality logged 4 calls within three blocks over the last 12 months. Kitchen exhaust, grease trap venting, or neighborhood air circulation can drift across property lines on warm days.

A single-family home operates entirely on private maintenance. With just a single residential lot, there are no shared tenant spaces or building-wide administrative filings on file. All maintenance rests on the private system infrastructure inside the house.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 212 illegal parking calls within three blocks last year, mostly sign violations along with 18 blocked hydrants.
• 32 street condition calls within three blocks in the trailing 12 months.
• 13 encampment calls within three blocks logged over the past year.

123 East 78th Street is a 1-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1014130012). 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 1871, this mixed-use building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

The building last changed hands on November 21, 2001, according to recorded deeds.

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