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131 East 85th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10028

131 East 85th Street is a 23-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1985, managed by Columbus Property Management. The City has 67 open housing-code violations on file for it, 23 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.9 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 27 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Columbus Property Management

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Units
23
Year built
1985
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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 112 to 27 year on year.

27tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 112 the year before

67open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.9 per apartment

2 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
23
Hazardous
38
Non-hazardous
6

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings27
  • Doors, windows and locks21
  • Pests7
  • Other repairs5
  • Heat or hot water3
  • Leaks, damp or mould2

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Columbus Property Management manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 2,717 apartments.

open violations
109open violations
immediately hazardous
20immediately hazardous
311 complaints
278311 complaints

in the past year

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

Nobody has written about 131 East 85th Street yet.

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