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123 West 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

123 West 81st Street is a 10-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1885, managed by NJB Management CORP. The City has 25 open housing-code violations on file for it, 12 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 5 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 5 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by NJB Management CORP.

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Units
10
Year built
1885
Borough
Manhattan

This building’s record with the City

Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.

1.4/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

5tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 4

25open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
12
Hazardous
11
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Heat or hot water4
  • Leaks, damp or mould4
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Pests2

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

NJB Management CORP manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 115 apartments.

open violations
122open violations
immediately hazardous
35immediately hazardous
311 complaints
22311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.1per apartment

The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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