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238 West 56th Street

A 5-story building with 23 apartments, built in 1926, in Manhattan, NY 10019.

Addresses on the lot: 238 to 240 West 56th Street.

HPD records as of October 26, 2026

10open HPD violations2 hazardous
0complaints to HPD, past yearnone about heat
19rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2023
December 2022latest housing court case6 cases on record, all years

238 West 56th Street has 10 open HPD violations. Tenants made no complaints to HPD in the past year. It is registered to KOZINN 238 LLC. 19 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023.

Does 238 West 56th Street have open violations?

Yes: 10 open violations as of October 26, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most0
B, hazardous30 days2
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days8

No class C violation is open. 66% of NYC buildings with 20 to 49 apartments have one. More on buildings by size

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made no complaints to HPD in the 12 months to October 26, 2026.

Among NYC buildings with 20 to 49 apartments, 69% had at least one complaint to HPD in the past year, and 53% had one about heat or hot water.

Who owns 238 West 56th Street?

238 West 56th Street is registered with HPD to KOZINN 238 LLC. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in December 2022. HPD’s record has 6 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

City marshals carried out 1 eviction here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 21% of residential buildings in 10019 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 238 West 56th Street rent stabilized?

19 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023, up from 18 in 2018. That’s 19 of the building’s 23 apartments. Whether one apartment is stabilized is in its rent history, which the tenant can ask the state for.

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of October 26, 2026; evictions and rent-stabilized counts as of May 30, 2026; size and age from the city’s PLUTO. All from NYC Open Data. Public records, not legal advice. Tax lot 1-01027-0058.