1642 Park Avenue, Manhattan

A top-floor roof leak drives a cluster of 21 open violations, alongside recent hot water calls and air quality reports nearby.

A four-unit 2010 building on Park Avenue carries 21 open housing violations, concentrated around a major roof leak in the top-floor apartment alongside active heat and hot water outages. Nearby, street noise and air quality complaints add surrounding block friction. Three things to know:

Roof leaks and water damage dominate the building's 21 open code violations. A single inspection sweep in March 2026 yielded multiple citations for roof leaks, severe ceiling plaster damage, and missing smoke detectors in Apartment 4. The same visit cited an immediately hazardous Class C violation for missing hot water, matching building-wide heat and hot water complaints logged that same month.

Exhaust and air quality reports cluster in the immediate area. Within three blocks, neighbors logged 5 indoor air quality calls and 9 food establishment complaints over the past year. In a small four-unit building, kitchen venting and commercial exhaust can easily migrate through shared risers or windows.

Street and apartment noise runs high on the surrounding blocks. Residents within three blocks logged 227 residential noise calls in the last 12 months—primarily loud music and pounding—plus 152 street-noise complaints. Facing Park Avenue means absorbing steady street-level volume.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 4 rat sighting complaints logged against the building over the past year
• 16 encampment and 36 homeless assistance calls logged within three blocks over 12 months
• 3 open Class C immediately hazardous violations active on file

1642 Park Avenue is a 4-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1016220034). This building is associated with Calvert Lancaster Housing Development Fund Company. Brix tracks 21 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 2010, this walk-up apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 19 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:

• Heat/hot Water: 7 complaints
• Safety: 4 complaints
• Water Leak: 3 complaints
• Unsanitary Condition: 2 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed March 22, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE LATCH AT BULKHEAD DOOR AT PUBLIC HALL STAIRS, 4th STORY
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR THE CEILING IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH AT WEST LOCATED AT APT
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE ROOF SO THAT IT WILL NOT LEAK AT CEILING IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH AT EAST LOCATED AT APT 4, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST A
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR AT CEILING IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH AT EAST LOCATED AT APT 4

The building last changed hands on October 8, 2025, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 18/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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