1540 York Avenue
BBL 1015780001Upper East Side-Yorkville · Manhattan
Floors
20
Built
1962
Area
309.2ksf
Units
296
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Address
PLUTO · DOF parcel identity
- Property address
- 1540 YORK AVENUE
- Alternate address(es)
- 501-505 East 81 St500-504 East 82 St1532-1538 York Ave1542-1550 York Ave
- Zip code
- 10028
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Yorkville
- Borough
- Manhattan
- Block & lot
- 01578-0001
Zoning & buildable
Lot 26,400 sf · R10 / R8B
- Zoning district
- R10 / R8B
- PLUTO building class
- D4
FAR breakdown & buildable envelope — residential, commercial and community-facility headroom math in the full report.
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PLUTO · owner of record
YORK HILL HOUSING INC
- Ownership form
- Co-op
- Co-op
- Building-level ownership · units are shares, not lots
- Last recorded sale
- None since 2000
Tenancy & use
PLUTO units + DHCR rent-stabilization roll
296residential unitsnon-stabilized
- Residential sq. ft.
- 301,204
- Commercial sq. ft.
- 8,000
- PLUTO class
- D4
Lot
PLUTO · DOF parcel geometry
- Lot area
- 26,400 sf
- Dimensions
- 204.3 × 123.0 ft
- Position
- Corner lot
- Front street
- E 82 ST
- Side street
- E 81 ST
- D/F ratio
- 0.6 — shallow lot (atypical for NYC)
Financial
NYC Department of Finance · assessment + last recorded sale
- Total assessment
- $32.0M
- Land value
- $4.9M
- Exempt
- $32.0M($0 taxable)
- $/sf (implied)
- $103
Debt history · 1 mortgage 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
Significant violations
28 open HPD violations · 0 open HPD complaints · 1 active DOB job
- HPD violations (24 months)
- 7
- DOB violations (24 months)
- 0
- HPD complaints (24 months)
- 6
- HPD complaints (open)
- 0
- DOB jobs (24 months)
- 2
$10K 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.