56 East 78 Street
BBL 1013920044Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill · Manhattan
Floors
7
Built
1978
Area
48.8ksf
Units
0
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Address
PLUTO · DOF parcel identity
- Property address
- 56 EAST 78 STREET
- Alternate address(es)
- 58-66 East 78 St
- Zip code
- 10075
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
- Borough
- Manhattan
- Block & lot
- 01392-0044
Zoning & buildable
Lot 10,855 sf · R8B
- Zoning district
- R8B
- Limited height district
- LH-1A
- Landmark
- Upper East Side Historic District
- PLUTO building class
- W8
Upper East Side Historic District — LPC approval required for exterior changes visible from a public right-of-way.
Limited Height District LH-1A — caps total building height regardless of FAR. Verify cap before underwriting any expansion.
FAR breakdown & buildable envelope — residential, commercial and community-facility headroom math in the full report.
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PLUTO · owner of record
RAMAZ SCHOOL
- Ownership form
- Other
- Last recorded sale
- None since 2000
Tenancy & use
PLUTO units + DHCR rent-stabilization roll
0residential unitsnon-stabilized
- Residential sq. ft.
- 0
- Commercial sq. ft.
- 48,796
- PLUTO class
- W8
Lot
PLUTO · DOF parcel geometry
- Lot area
- 10,855 sf
- Dimensions
- 106.3 × 102.2 ft
- Position
- Mid-block · south side
- Front street
- E 78 ST
- D/F ratio
- 1.0 — shallow lot (atypical for NYC)
Financial
NYC Department of Finance · assessment + last recorded sale
- Total assessment
- $15.8M
- Land value
- $5.4M
- Exempt
- $15.8M($0 taxable)
- $/sf (implied)
- $323
Compliance
HPD & DOB · violations + complaints + jobs
Clean record
0 open HPD violations · 0 open HPD complaints · 0 active DOB jobs
- HPD violations (24 months)
- 0
- DOB violations (24 months)
- 0
- HPD complaints (24 months)
- 0
- HPD complaints (open)
- 0
- DOB jobs (24 months)
- 0
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.