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157 West 72nd Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, NY 10023

157 West 72nd Street is a 6-apartment building in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, built in 1884, managed by Building Equity Management LLC. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.50 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Building Equity Management LLC

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Units
6
Year built
1884
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.

2.8/5About average for the areaScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 1 to 0 year on year.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

3open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
1
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests2
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Building Equity Management LLC manages 48 other buildings we cover, holding 657 apartments.

open violations
203open violations
immediately hazardous
68immediately hazardous
311 complaints
18311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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

Nobody has written about 157 West 72nd Street yet.

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