Heavy July violation filings, active top-floor roof leaks, and surrounding commercial air quality complaints mark the recent record.
This 25-unit pre-war rental carries 16 open violations, four in the immediately hazardous Class C tier. The building shows active mid-summer friction around hot water cutouts, top-floor roof leaks, and nearby air quality complaints from food establishments. Three things to know:
Top-floor leaks are reaching the kitchen ceilings. In July 2026, inspectors cited open Class B violations in apartment 61 for an active roof leak dripping through the kitchen ceiling, alongside defective plaster. When roof water moves through a six-story building, top-floor apartments take the direct impact.
Hot water cutouts hit multiple floors on the same July days. Inspectors issued Class C immediately-hazardous citations for total lack of hot water in July 2026 across units on both the fifth and sixth floors. That overlap matches a surge of building-wide hot water calls in a single 48-hour stretch that same month.
Commercial food venting drifts across the immediate block. Within three blocks of the building, neighbors logged 21 food establishment complaints and 8 indoor air quality calls in the last year. Exhaust fumes, commercial cooking odors, and street-level venting can drift directly into lower-floor units or open windows.
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223 West 109th Street is a 25-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1018810019). This building is associated with 109th Affordable Housing LLC. Brix tracks 19 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1910, 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 252 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 26, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on May 13, 2009 for $4,972,519.81, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 14/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 61 at 223 West 109th Street has 8 open violations, 1 permit filed ($25K, latest 2016).
Unit 54 at 223 West 109th Street has 4 open violations.
Unit 52 at 223 West 109th Street has 3 open violations.
Unit 4 at 223 West 109th Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 44 at 223 West 109th Street has 1 open violation, 1 permit filed ($15K, latest 2014).
Unit 3 at 223 West 109th Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 43 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 1 permit filed ($70K, latest 2019).
Unit 31 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (1 past violation), 1 permit filed ($70K, latest 2019).
Unit 23 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (1 past violation), 1 permit filed ($35K, latest 2018).
Unit 33 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (1 past violation), 1 permit filed ($21K, latest 2016).
Unit 53 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 1 permit filed ($15K, latest 2016).
Unit 22 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 1 permit filed ($15K, latest 2016).
Unit 41 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 1 permit filed ($25K, latest 2016).
Unit 63 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (10 past violations), 1 permit filed ($15K, latest 2015).
Unit 24 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 2 permits filed ($28K, latest 2014).
Unit 21 at 223 West 109th Street has no violations, 1 permit filed ($15K, latest 2014).
Unit 62 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (20 past violations).
Unit 51 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (34 past violations).
Unit 34 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 32 at 223 West 109th Street has no open violations (9 past violations).
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