Affordable Yorkville rental with active pest and heating calls, set along a commercial strip with persistent food establishment and air quality filings.
A 28-unit Yorkville rental operating under an HDFC affordable housing structure, registered to A Better Place HDFC. While building-level filings highlight recurring maintenance needs, the surrounding street context brings additional air quality and commercial signals to verify. Three things to know:
Surrounding restaurant venting and air quality calls raise potential smell bleed. Within three blocks, neighbors logged 51 food establishment calls and 15 indoor air quality reports over the last year. Ground-floor dining exhaust and kitchen venting frequently bleed into residential risers, making floor height and stack position critical.
Pest complaints dominate the building's maintenance calls. Nine unsanitary condition reports logged over the trailing year show a heavy focus on pest complaints. The filings concentrated in spring and summer 2025, suggesting targeted line-by-line issues rather than a single sudden building-wide outage.
Winter heating complaints surface during seasonal cold snaps. Eight heat and hot water calls came in over the last year, largely tied to seasonal temperature shifts. In a 1920 construction, recurring heating calls often signal aging boiler lines or uneven distribution across lines.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
331 East 86th Street is a 28-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1015490014). This building is associated with A Better Place, LP. 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 1920, this Manhattan property is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 87 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 August 13, 2025.
The building last changed hands on April 22, 2013, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 83/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 3D at 331 East 86th Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 5C at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 5D at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 5G at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 4B at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 4C at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 4D at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 4G at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 3B at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 3E at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 2A at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 2G at 331 East 86th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
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