70 Battery Place is an elevator apartment building built in 1998 in Manhattan with 209 residential units. It carries a Grade C health score, indicating moderate building issues, including 1 open Class C violation and 44 DOB violations. Our analysis reviewed 572 records across 26 public data sources, benchmarked against similar large postwar residential buildings in NYC.
Open violations
5 open violations are past the city's repair deadline. 1 hazardous (Class C) violation remains open in city records.
The grade measures tenant living conditions from public city records (violations, complaints, litigation). It is not a structural or construction-safety rating.
vs. neighborhood (10280)6th percentile
Worse than 94% of 17 buildingszip avg 89
Alerts
Open Critical Violations
This building has unresolved Class C (immediately hazardous) violations that require urgent repair.
Chronic Habitability Complaints
This building has a recurring pattern of complaints in at least one habitability category — heat/hot water, electric, elevator, mold, lead, boiler, or unsanitary conditions (3+ within 12 months in a single category).
Facade Needs Repair
The building facade has been classified as requiring repair (SWARMP status) during a required inspection.
High Emergency Complaints
This flag was detected in our analysis of this building.
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Construction and structural enforcement from city records. These are facts from DOB/ECB/FDNY filings — they are separate from the tenant-conditions grade above.
Facade (Local Law 11): no report filed for the current inspection cycle while still classified SWARMP (safe with a required repair program).
2025-04-07 · HIGH · Elevators enforcement violation
Details for each record are available in the building timeline and in DOB's public database.
Rent stabilization
Building-level stabilized unit counts from city tax records (nyc-doffer, latest 2024) — context for tenants, separate from the tenant-conditions grade above. Your specific unit may differ.
Rent-stabilized units: 2018: 209 → 2024: 43
Down 166 units (79%) since 2018 — a signal of deregulation and tenant turnover pressure.
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