214 East 61st Street, Manhattan

A 19th-century single-family townhouse sitting on an active East Side block.

An 1872 single-family townhouse that sees virtually no operational filings of its own. Because it operates as a single private residence, there are no shared tenant spaces or routine housing-code filings. The primary considerations live on the surrounding blocks. Three things to know:

Street parking and residential sound generate steady activity nearby. Within three blocks, 225 illegal parking calls were logged over the last 12 months, driven primarily by 155 blocked bike lane complaints rather than stored cars. Surrounding addresses logged another 152 residential noise complaints in the same period, mostly citing banging and pounding.

Nearby food establishments generate commercial venting and air quality reports. Surrounding commercial spaces logged 16 food establishment complaints over the past 12 months, alongside 11 air quality reports within three blocks. Nearby dining exhaust and commercial venting can drift toward adjacent residential lots depending on wind and rear-yard setbacks.

Long-term family ownership keeps public operational filings sparse. Historical property transfers show extended family and trust holdings through the 1980s and 1990s, with a mortgage transaction recorded in 2003. Single-family structures rarely generate standard building filings, so evaluating physical systems requires direct inspection.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 22 encampment calls and 38 homeless assistance requests were logged within three blocks over the last 12 months.
• 28 rodent calls were logged across the surrounding three blocks during the past year.

214 East 61st Street is a single-family home in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1014150141). This building is associated with Vincent J Gallo. 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 1872, 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 February 28, 2003 for $1,300,000, according to recorded deeds.

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