517 West 59 Street
BBL 1011510017Upper West Side-Lincoln Square · Manhattan
Floors
33
Built
1973
Area
402.7ksf
Units
465
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Address
PLUTO · DOF parcel identity
- Property address
- 517 WEST 59 STREET
- Alternate address(es)
- 515 West 59 St519-523 West 59 St202-220 West 60 St
- Zip code
- 10019
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
- Borough
- Manhattan
- Block & lot
- 01151-0017
Zoning & buildable
Lot 28,016 sf · C4-7
- Zoning district
- C4-7
- PLUTO building class
- D6
FAR breakdown & buildable envelope — residential, commercial and community-facility headroom math in the full report.
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PLUTO · owner of record
AUGUSTUS JAMES CORP.
- Ownership form
- Rental
- Last recorded sale
- None since 2000
Ownership history · 1 record since 2007 — the parties, amounts, and connected properties in the full report.
Sign in to see itTenancy & use
PLUTO units + DHCR rent-stabilization roll
465residential unitsnon-stabilized
- Residential sq. ft.
- 330,102
- Commercial sq. ft.
- 72,605
- PLUTO class
- D6
Lot
PLUTO · DOF parcel geometry
- Lot area
- 28,016 sf
- Dimensions
- 139.5 × 200.8 ft
- Position
- Mid-block · south side
- Front street
- W 60 ST
- D/F ratio
- 1.4 — shallow lot (atypical for NYC)
Financial
NYC Department of Finance · assessment + last recorded sale
- Total assessment
- $24.6M
- Land value
- $2.4M
- Exempt
- $22.8M($1.7M taxable)
- $/sf (implied)
- $61
Debt history · 3 mortgages on record · refinance-window signal detected — lenders, amounts and maturity timing in the full report.
Sign in to see itCompliance
HPD & DOB · violations + complaints + jobs
Minor activity
5 open HPD violations · 0 open HPD complaints · 3 active DOB jobs
- HPD violations (24 months)
- 2
- DOB violations (24 months)
- 0
- HPD complaints (24 months)
- 8
- HPD complaints (open)
- 0
- DOB jobs (24 months)
- 8
$2.1M in alteration permits over last 24 months
Provenance
Every datum on this page is sourced from public NYC + federal datasets, refreshed on the schedule below.
| Source | What it covers | Last refresh |
|---|---|---|
| PLUTO | NYC DCP · physical / zoning / ownership baseline | Jul 9, 2026 |
| ACRIS | NYC DOF · deed + mortgage history | Jul 9, 2026 |
| HPD | Housing Preservation & Development · violations + complaints | Jul 9, 2026 |
| DOB | Department of Buildings · violations + permits | Jul 9, 2026 |
| DHCR | Rent Stabilization roll (through 2024) | Jul 9, 2026 |
| LPC | Landmarks Preservation Commission · landmark status | not loaded |
| Footprint | NYC DoITT photogrammetric building polygons | not loaded |
Assembled at Jul 9, 2026. Discrepancies between sources reflect upstream-data quality, not assembly bugs — file in our quality tracker.