Pelham Bay mold help for a neighborhood of houses and apartment blocks
Pelham Bay mixes two-family homes with large rentals on a Zone VE coastline, and the right first call depends on which kind of building you have.
Which side of the city line
Inside New York City: the Bronx
Housing inspectors score a mold violation by the size of the patch, and every class carries its own deadline. The city also bars an owner, a managing agent and their staff from doing mold work over ten square feet in a building with ten or more apartments, so a state-licensed firm has to.
Past the line: Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Pelham, New Rochelle
Common questions
Is Pelham Bay mostly flood-prone?
It has a Zone VE coastal designation, but ZIP 10461 has only 33 flood insurance claims in its history, so a wet building here points first to a leak inside it.
Which Pelham Bay buildings does the city's mold duty cover?
Buildings of three or more apartments, and a building of any size housing a tenant who has a diagnosis of moderate or severe persistent asthma. A small owner-occupied house without that tenant sits outside the duty.
The four jobs in Pelham Bay
Four jobs, one neighborhood. Choose the one that matches your building, and the page explains how it works for a Pelham Bay house or apartment block.
Local notes for Pelham Bay
Look at ZIP code 10461 and you see two neighborhoods stacked together. 44.1 percent of units are in one or two unit buildings, while 34.3 percent are in buildings of ten or more apartments, and 70.3 percent of occupied units are rented. The median building dates from 1951, and 37.9 percent of units were built in 1939 or earlier.
The shoreline gives it a reputation for flooding. FEMA's flood layer returns Zone VE, the coastal high hazard designation, for the Eastchester Bay edge at Pelham Bay, with a base flood elevation of 17 feet. Yet only 33 flood insurance claims have ever been filed in 10461. The map is dramatic and the history is quiet, which tells an owner to look first at the building before assuming surge.
Duty follows size. Three or more apartments puts the owner under the city's mold duty and Housing Preservation and Development. A small house does not, unless a tenant has moderate or severe persistent asthma. Both sit on the city's side of the line, which ends at the Westchester border where Pelham Manor begins.
- Median year built
- 1951
- Old buildings
- 37.9 percent of housing units built in 1939 or earlier (ZIP 10461)
- Renters
- 70.3 percent of occupied units are renter occupied (ZIP 10461)
- Larger buildings
- 34.3 percent of units are in buildings of ten or more apartments (ZIP 10461)
Source: American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 5-year estimates, US Census Bureau
Who handles it here
In Pelham Bay the owner of a building with three or more apartments must keep tenants' homes free of mold and the city's Housing Preservation and Development department enforces it, and one and two unit buildings are 44.1 percent of units in ZIP code 10461. Source: New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 5-year estimates, US Census Bureau
What makes buildings wet
FEMA's flood layer returns Zone VE with a base flood elevation of 17 feet on the Eastchester Bay shoreline at Pelham Bay, the highest of the Bronx points checked, while ZIP code 10461 has recorded only 33 flood insurance claims in its history. Source: National Flood Hazard Layer, Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA NFIP redacted claims, Federal Emergency Management Agency