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161 Manhattan Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, NY 10025

161 Manhattan Avenue is a 24-apartment building in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, built in 1929, managed by Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC. The City has 22 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.92 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 15 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 Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC.

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Units
24
Year built
1929
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 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

2 repairs have been cleared since our last check.

15tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before

22open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.9 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
6
Hazardous
12
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests10
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Plumbing1

Housing Court

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC manages 32 other buildings we cover, holding 612 apartments.

open violations
659open violations
immediately hazardous
171immediately hazardous
311 complaints
228311 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

Nobody has written about 161 Manhattan Avenue yet.

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