Serious concerns
Go in with your eyes open
41
out of 100
Heaviest record of any building in Midtown-Times Square
12 open hazardous violations, against a typical 2 nearby.
242 WEST 56TH STREET · 6 apartments · built 1974 · records to 2026-09-13
In its favor
- Nothing notable in the record.
Against it
- 12 open hazardous violations, against a typical 2 nearby
- Fixes only 0% of violations by the city’s deadline
Open and hazardous
12 violations the city still lists as unresolved
12 of them are past the correction deadline HPD set, by a median of 4 months.
- Fire & life safety5
- Heat / hot water3
- Pests1
- Water leak1
- Other1
- Electrical1
A typical building of 6 to 19 apartments has 2. This one has more than 77% of them.
The oldest shown was issued 2007-09-12 and remains open on HPD’s records.