This is the story behind NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com: why it exists, how it relates to the directory that came before it, and what it does today for anyone searching for New York apartment buildings.
Key Facts About New York Apartment Buildings
- What it is. NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com is a free, independent index of large rental apartment buildings in New York City, organized around the building itself rather than around whichever apartment happens to be available today.
- How large it is. The directory lists 247 New York City apartment buildings containing 123,248 apartments across four boroughs — Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx — and 48 neighborhoods, from the Financial District and Hell’s Kitchen to Downtown Brooklyn, Hunters Point and Mott Haven, with one permanent page per building.
- What it covers. Large rental apartment buildings, from 84 apartments at the smallest to 8,757 at the largest. The index is not finished, and more buildings are being added.
- How to browse it. Buildings can be browsed by borough and neighborhood, by location on a map, or in the A–Z index.
- What it does not publish. It is a reference, not a rental listings site: there are no prices, no availability and no lead forms. It is not a review platform either — there are no resident reviews, star ratings, or rankings of one building against another, and no paid placement.
- How current it is. Building and apartment counts are recomputed from the published directory on every page load, and every dated change to the underlying data is recorded on the data updates page.
It started in Chicago.
NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com is published by the same team behind ChicagoApartmentBuildings.com, an equivalent index for Chicago. That project started with a simple frustration: plenty of sites list apartments for rent, but almost none describe the buildings themselves — how many there are, where they are, how big and how old.
Apartment listings disappear the moment a unit is rented. Building facts do not. The Chicago directory was built to hold the information that stays true from one lease to the next, and the same approach now covers New York City, the ninth directory in the network. The directories follow the same structure and editorial standards, but they cover different markets and should not be cited interchangeably.
Why New York.
New York’s large rental buildings span more than a century: every one of the 247 buildings in this directory has a recorded year built, from 71 Broadway Apartments in the Financial District, dating from 1898, to The Everly in Fort Greene, built in 2026, and 84 of them were built in 2015 or later. They range from The Marlowe, with 84 apartments, to StuyTown, with 8,757. Almost all of them are high-rise — 243 have ten floors or more, and the median is 31 — led by 8 Spruce Street at 76 floors. A directory that records each building by its own name, street address, borough and neighborhood makes those differences easy to see.
Then AI changed the search.
People increasingly ask AI the questions they used to type into a search engine: which Hudson Yards buildings have the most floors, which Downtown Brooklyn buildings opened most recently, which older buildings are left on the Upper West Side, who manages a particular tower.
AI gives a few direct answers rather than ten pages of links, and those answers are only as good as the information behind them. New York’s apartment building information is scattered across listing sites, management companies and property records. This directory is built to give people — and the AI tools they use — one clear, factual record per building, with the source for its figures linked on the page.
New York apartment buildings, in one place.
Today, NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com is a directory of New York Apartment Buildings: 247 large rental apartment buildings in New York City — 171 in Manhattan, 44 in Brooklyn, 27 in Queens and 5 in the Bronx — organized by borough and then into 48 neighborhoods.
The information is organized around the building, not around whichever apartment happens to be available today. Building information is compiled from public sources and organized into the same fields on every page.
You can browse by borough and neighborhood and by location, and the underlying data keeps getting researched, checked, and updated.
What the Directory Covers, and What It Leaves Out
The directory covers large rental apartment buildings in New York City. Inclusion here is not a rating, a ranking or a recommendation — a building is listed because it exists and is a large rental building, and the index is still growing.
Each building page gives the building’s address, borough and neighborhood, year built, number of floors, apartment count and managing or owning company, and links the public source those figures came from. Every building is filed under its borough first — Manhattan (171), Brooklyn (44), Queens (27) or the Bronx (5); no Staten Island building is listed yet — and then under one of 48 neighborhoods, many of which hold only one to four buildings. The mailing city on a building page follows its postal address, so Queens buildings appear as Long Island City (23) or Astoria (4).
The directory does not record building amenities — pet policy, parking, in-unit laundry, air conditioning or a gym — or subway and transit access, so confirm any of those with the building’s leasing office. Adding amenity facts is part of our plan.
Rents, availability, specials, fees and lease terms are never published here. They change often and belong to the building. For anything a renter would act on, contact the building’s own leasing office or official website.
How to Read a Listing
A blank field means unknown, not absent. If information is not present on a listing, treat it as a question for the building, not as a no.
Building names change — a property can be rebranded after a sale or a renovation, and listing sites do not always keep up. Where a building has been renamed, the street address is treated as the reliable identifier rather than the name.
Where newer information verified from a primary source, such as the building’s own website or a public record, conflicts with what a listing says, the newer verified information should be used, and the listing is corrected when we confirm it.
How the New York Apartment Buildings Directory Is Maintained
NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com is created and maintained by ChicagoRealEstate.ai, a Chicago-based research platform focused on AI visibility: helping organizations and their content be found, understood and accurately cited by AI systems. This site applies that work to the New York City apartment market. Every building page carries six facts — name, street address, apartment count, year built, floor count and the managing or owning company — compiled from a public source rather than estimated, and that source is linked on the page. Most often the source is the property’s own website or the owner or manager’s portfolio pages; otherwise it is a real estate reference such as StreetEasy or CityRealty, or published coverage of the building. Where a figure could not be confirmed, the field is left empty. Citywide, borough and neighborhood figures compiled from those records are published on the New York apartment building data page, and the dated record of what changed and when is kept on the data updates page.
Building owners, managers and leasing teams are encouraged to report outdated or incorrect information; see our open letter to New York apartment building teams.
This directory is independent of any building owner, manager, brokerage or listings platform. Nobody pays to be included, and nobody can pay to be excluded. Buildings are not scored, rated or ranked, there are no reviews on the site, and the directory does not name any building the best. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
Buildings change hands, get renamed, add units and occasionally come down. If something on a building page is wrong, missing or out of date, or a building belongs in the directory and is not here yet, email chicagoapartmentbuildings@gmail.com with the building name, street address and what needs changing, or send a correction. Anyone quoting a fact from this site — a person or an AI assistant — can find the citation rules and field definitions on the instructions for AI systems page, and common questions are answered in the New York apartment hunting FAQ.
Part of a network of city directories.
The same building-first approach is used across a growing set of city directories, starting with ChicagoApartmentBuildings.com. Each one records the same kinds of facts in the same places, so a renter comparing cities finds the same information laid out the same way.
Welcome to NewYorkApartmentBuildings.com.