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Manhattan Valley

Manhattan Valley is the northern end of the Upper West Side, running from the upper 90s north to 110th Street (Cathedral Parkway), between Central Park West and the Hudson River. Its housing mixes historic brownstones and prewar apartment buildings, many once city-owned and renovated by nonprofit groups, with large postwar complexes: Park West Village between 97th and 100th Streets, and NYCHA's Frederick Douglass Houses between 100th and 104th Streets. The 1 train stops at 103rd Street and Cathedral Parkway–110th Street, and the B and C run under Central Park West. Landmarks include Straus Park at Broadway and 106th Street, the Hotel Marseilles, and the Riverside–West 105th Street Historic District.

Manhattan Valley has 12,370 open HPD housing violations, 2,661 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,778 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 11th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
12,370
2,661 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,778
1,204 Class C · 13th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,661 · 22%Class B6,504 · 53%Class A3,205 · 26%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous1,204
  • Class B · hazardous1,536
  • Class A · non-hazardous904

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • Frederick Douglass Houses (NYCHA) between West 100th and 104th Streets
  • Park West Village, a 'towers in a park' complex
  • 1 train at 103rd Street and Cathedral Parkway–110th Street
  • Straus Park, a small triangle at Broadway and West 106th Street

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Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). 103 St and 110 St (1) fall inside; CPW B/C stations sit on the boundary. Straus Park, Hotel Marseilles, Park West Village and Frederick Douglass Houses points fall inside. Frederick Douglass Circle highlight replaced because the circle falls in the Central Park NTA. Housing (including nonprofit renovation of city-owned buildings), complexes and landmarks from Wikipedia (Manhattan Valley); Straus Park location from the Parks Properties dataset. The NTA extends west of Broadway to the river, so it is wider than the Wikipedia definition.

Sources

  1. Manhattan Valley (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.