Mold and water damage help in the Village of Pelham, Westchester
This page is for the Village of Pelham, a Westchester village on the far side of the city line, north of Pelham Manor. It is not Pelham Bay in the Bronx. Tell us what you see at your property and we connect you with the firm it needs.
Which side of the city line
Inside New York City: the Bronx
Past the line: Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Pelham, New Rochelle
The ten-unit bar is a city law, so it stops at the line. Each of these places has its own building department, and the state's two-license rule still applies over ten square feet. Section 933's exemptions still apply here, among them an owner working on their own home, and an owner or managing agent using full-time staff on a building of more than four units, unless they do mold work for the public.
Common questions
Is Pelham Manor covered by this page?
No. This page is written for the Village of Pelham. Pelham Manor is a separate village with its own building department.
Is a Pelham Bay address the same as Pelham?
No. Pelham Bay is a neighborhood of the Bronx, inside New York City. The Village of Pelham is in Westchester County, and the rules that bind an owner differ on each side.
The four jobs in Pelham
Start with the job that matches your property: drying after water, an assessment, a cleanup to a plan, or a reply to a code notice.
Local notes for Pelham
Pelham's stock is the oldest of the four Westchester places covered here. Age is the first factor: the median home dates to 1938, and of the village's 2,458 units, 59.2 percent went up in 1939 or earlier. Nearly three in four homes are in one or two unit buildings (72.9 percent), and 57.5 percent are single family houses, so the usual suspects are original roofs, window heads and cellar walls.
Storm water is the other half. The village's own flood plan records streets and homes near 3rd Street and the Hutchinson River flooding in storms and staying flooded for days, and says the area under the Lincoln Avenue overpass floods.
Be exact about the village. Pelham here means the Village of Pelham, which sits north of Pelham Manor. Westchester's list of local building departments names both villages, each with its own office, so start with your own village's department. A Pelham Manor owner should deal with that village's office instead.
- Median year built
- 1938
- Old buildings
- 59.2 percent of housing units built in 1939 or earlier
- Renters
- 32.7 percent of occupied units are renter occupied
- Larger buildings
- 22.6 percent of units are in buildings of five or more units
Source: American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 5-year estimates, US Census Bureau
Who handles it here
In the Village of Pelham the village Building Department issues permits and inspects existing housing for complaints and code enforcement, the neighboring Village of Pelham Manor runs its own separate building department, and neither is New York City's HPD. Source: Village of Pelham Building Department, Westchester County Department of Consumer Protection, Town of Pelham
What makes buildings wet
The Hutchinson River and an inadequate 12 inch pipe on 3rd Street left streets and homes flooded for days in storms, the area under the Lincoln Avenue overpass floods, and the village has a proposed plan for two primary drainage channels. Source: Village of Pelham annex, Westchester County Hazard Mitigation Plan, Village of Pelham