171 West 71st Street, Manhattan, NY 10023

171 West 71st Street is a 13-story, 50-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1902 and currently owned by Adam Emmerich. The building has experienced several notable issues in recent years, most concerningly an active façade safety notification (LL11/98) from February 2025 that remains unresolved as of this report date.

There were also multiple Department of Buildings Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations in 2024 related to construction work and failure to address unsafe conditions, including a $2,500 penalty for improper notification of unsafe conditions. The building has maintained relatively good hygiene standards, with no recorded bedbug infestations since 2020 and passing rodent inspections in 2023 and 2024, despite some rat activity noted between 2020 and 2021. The property has a history of food safety concerns, particularly in recent years, with four separate Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) complaints regarding food establishments in 2025 alone, and multiple food poisoning incidents between 2021 and 2023, though most were determined to be isolated incidents.

An electric power outage in March 2023 required HPD intervention but resulted in no violations. The building has also undergone several permit issuances and work-related inspections between 2018 and 2019, including electrical and plumbing work, though specific details on these projects are not provided in the data. While there have been various violations and service requests recorded against the building, many have been resolved through proper channels, though the pending façade safety issue warrants attention.