540 East 139th Street, Bronx

A late-90s single-family home where street-level noise and neighborhood commercial food activity define the immediate surroundings.

A single-family townhouse built in 1998, acquired for $420,000 in June 2020. As a single-unit home, there are no shared hall friction points or tenant complaint patterns on file. Three things to know:

Residential and street-level noise complaints concentrate across the surrounding three blocks. Within three blocks of the home, neighbors logged 246 residential noise calls (157 specifically for banging and 75 for loud music) and 210 street noise calls over the past 12 months. The surrounding streetscape carries heavy evening and weekend activity.

Nearby food establishments generate recurring air quality and operational complaints across the area. Within three blocks of the house, neighbors logged 13 food establishment calls over the past 12 months. While commercial kitchens operate down the block rather than inside this standalone property, venting and exhaust odors can drift across low-rise blocks depending on wind and property line layout.

The townhouse transferred in 2020 and has remained under individual ownership. Deed filings show the townhouse transferred for $420,000 in June 2020, backed by mortgage financing. The house has remained under the same individual ownership since that transaction.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Unsanitary condition reports within three blocks reached 134 over 12 months, primarily pests and mold calls.
• Illegal parking complaints totaled 80 calls within three blocks over the last year, mostly double-parking issues.

540 East 139th Street is a single-family home in Bronx, New York City (BBL 2022660116). 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 1998, this single-family home sits in Bronx and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

The building last changed hands on June 11, 2020 for $420,000, according to recorded deeds.

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