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138 West 109th Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, NY 10025

138 West 109th Street is a 10-apartment building in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, built in 1910, managed by Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management

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Units
10
Year built
1910
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.

2.3/5Worse than most 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 12 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 12 the year before

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.6 per apartment

6 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
6
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
7

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Leaks, damp or mould5
  • Pests4
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Doors, windows and locks1

Housing Court

The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management manages 72 other buildings we cover, holding 1,122 apartments.

open violations
1,167open violations
immediately hazardous
359immediately hazardous
311 complaints
1,456311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.0per 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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