Active hazardous citations, a summer noise cluster, and indoor air quality calls make this Harlem rental one to evaluate carefully before signing.
This 21-unit Harlem rental shows open code issues alongside specific internal comfort flags. Open hazardous citations and summer noise calls are paired with indoor air quality filings that warrant a close look during a walk-through. Three things to know:
Open Class C violations show ongoing roach and door maintenance issues The file carries 19 open housing-code violations, including 9 Class C immediately hazardous items for active roach infestations and broken self-closing doors. Multi-unit roach citations point to a recurring building-wide pest pattern rather than a single isolated apartment.
Indoor air quality calls point to potential riser or exhaust bleed Three indoor air quality calls have been logged for the building. Because air quality and odor issues often travel through shared risers, internal shafts, or ground-floor spaces, this is a comfort detail that is impossible to catch without an in-person check.
A summer surge of banging and pounding calls signals unresolved noise friction 20 residential noise complaints carry the specific descriptor of banging and pounding, with a heavy run of calls logged between June and August 2026. That concentration suggests an unaddressed neighbor conflict or structural pipe thump.
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201 West 121st Street is a 21-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1019270029). This building is associated with Harlem West Vi HDFC Inc. Brix tracks 21 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1910, this elevator apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 230 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about unsanitary condition.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed August 18, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on July 26, 1999 for $4,319,994, according to recorded deeds.
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Unit 1A at 201 West 121st Street has 6 open violations.
Unit 5D at 201 West 121st Street has 4 open violations.
Unit 1C at 201 West 121st Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 2D at 201 West 121st Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 3C at 201 West 121st Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 6B at 201 West 121st Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 4D at 201 West 121st Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 5C at 201 West 121st Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 6C at 201 West 121st Street has 1 open violation.
Unit 6A at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (96 past violations).
Unit 5B at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (21 past violations).
Unit 4A at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (2 past violations).
Unit 3A at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (3 past violations).
Unit 3D at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (26 past violations).
Unit 2B at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (4 past violations).
Unit 1B at 201 West 121st Street has no open violations (21 past violations).
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